BREE 490 Engineering Design Capstone Course
The Capstone Design Project has a 2-semester duration (Winter and Fall). Projects involve defining an engineering problem, reviewing relevant background, acquiring/analyzing data, and seeking solutions using appropriate simulation/analysis tools and/or experimental investigation, in keeping with professional engineering practices.
All projects must include:
- A clear design component while describing criteria/constraints
- The application of design standards
- Adherence to social, economic and environmental sustainability
- Design specifications and drawings, prototyping, optimization, economic feasibility
Capstone Design Project courses across the departments in the Faculty of Engineering provide the educational capstone for all final year engineering students. With the above criteria in mind, teams of students design prototype solutions for real-world problems.
Capstone projects come from a wide variety of industries and can address a wide range of industrial challenges such as the creation of new products to improve manufacturing methods. Benefits for companies include fresh perspectives on industry challenges and access to an excellent source of project resources and potential employees.
To meet official engineering program rules, final design projects must be done under supervision at McGill.
- Propose a project for the BREE 490 Engineering Design Capstone Course
- BREE 490/BREE 495 Engineering Design Capstone Course Call for Projects form
- Project supervisor roles and responsibilities
- Sponsorship and supervision of undergraduate project courses
Have a problem that needs solving?
Industry partners are invited to submit project proposals
One interesting opportunity for innovative companies is to participate in a Bioresource Engineering Design Project as part of a two‑semester Capstone Project. The project challenges students to design, build and deliver a working prototype to help solve an industry problem. In accordance with the partner's needs, this may include building an interdisciplinary team comprised of students from a variety of other departments.
Benefits for companies include:
- Fresh perspectives on industry challenges
- Access to an excellent source of project resources and potential employees
- Cost-effective solutions
Each Design Project is assigned to a team of 3-4 final-year undergraduate students, motivated, active, and ambitious, who work with your engineers to define problems, search for alternate solutions, and finally to build a prototype model. Faculty members from the Department of Bioresource Engineering together with highly experienced people from industry work with the students to guide and supervise them. This is an excellent way, cost-efficient way to develop, designed, tested, evaluated, new projects while preparing students for careers in the discipline.
If you have a challenging problem and an interest in working with our Bioresource Engineering students, submit a project proposal.