Sponsor's Benefits
- Graduate student mentors who will guide the undergraduate student team through the development of a design solution for the project.
- Student team that will provide more than 300 hours of internship work towards developing a solution to the proposed project.
- Final report to an important problem/project with recommendations from the undergraduate student team and graduate mentor.
- Insight from students into the latest technologies and methods as taught in the civil and environmental engineering program.
- Assurance that the solution has been checked and reviewed by a faculty technical adviser.
- Contact far beyond an interview with future CCE candidates that you might consider for hire.
- An opportunity to contribute to the BYU Civil Engineering program in developing a world class program.
- Satisfaction of passing your valuable experience and enthusiasm for Civil Engineering on to the next generation.
- Capstone projects that are designed for process or product improvement demonstrations and innovative concept assessment can help strengthen the respective sponsors' competitiveness through cost management, improved construction/manufacturing processes, lower product maintenance, mitigate potential procedural risks, etc. All of which can help justifying sponsors' business case toward implementing innovative ideas that are win-win-win among the sponsors, their customers and consumers.
Costs to support our Capstone projects are often pennies on the dollars in comparison with potential benefits such as those listed above.