Arizona State University (ASU)

Tempe, Arizona, United States

The capstone design course is the culmination of the entire chemical engineering curriculum. The course intends to give students experience in finding a satisfactory solution for an open-ended problem of the students choosing, which has more than one solution. The design project is carried out in engineering teams of the students’ choosing. A project involving each team gives valuable experience in planning, division of work, and maintaining individual accountability within a framework of group success. Students will apply economic/value-generation principles to optimize equipment selection and design; process safety; development and design of process systems.