A Combined Electrical And Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Laboratory

This paper describes a multidisciplinary capstone design laboratory course offered in the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments at Texas Tech University. The course uses projects from industry, research efforts and other faculty initiatives. The projects for the course come from industry, research efforts and other faculty initiatives. The courses are team taught by both departments. This paper describes the structure of the program along with example projects and results. Both positive and negative aspects of the program are presented.