Industrial Engineering Capstone Symposium May 2

Teams of industrial engineering students have spent the past six months working with local companies, including Walmart Inc. and J.B. Hunt, using their engineering skills to help improve systems and processes. They will present their projects and the results of their efforts at the second annual Industrial Engineering Capstone Symposium.

The symposium will be from 9:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, at the Fayetteville Town Center. Events scheduled that day include presentations from the teams and a project exhibition.

This is the culmination of the two-semester Industrial Engineering Capstone Experience Course. Students are grouped in teams of 3 or 4 and matched with an industry partner in mid-October. Each team is led by a student project manager and advised by a member of the industrial engineering faculty.

The industry partner provides the team with a point of contact and meets with the team (in-person or virtually) at least once per week to help the team identify and meet stakeholders, obtain data, assess the validity of their industrial engineering analysis, and review draft versions of course milestones and project results.