GET 4840 — Engineering Technology Capstone Project Preparation and Proposal
2 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath WIusually offered: fall, springOnlineOnline
Offers students an opportunity to apply the steps of the engineering design process and develop a comprehensive written engineering project proposal. Includes a review of the engineering design process from problem statement to prototype fabrication and testing. Working closely with the instructor, students are asked to identify a technological need of actual interest for local companies, communities, or students’ workplace and to follow the engineering design process. Students document the marketing, patent, and literature search for prior art, customer/engineering specifications, brainstorming process to generate feasible solutions, most viable solution selection process, and detailed labor and materials budget for actual execution of the solution to be completed in GET 4850.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 6 | 30 | 20% | 24.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 13% | 26.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 0%
Common patterns: async (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Edward Green (100% of students)
Spring
- Edward Green (100% of students)
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Unlocks
Courses that list GET 4840 in their prerequisites.
Links
Official catalog (GET course descriptions) · All GET courses · Plan it at numap.app