Capstone Projects

Capstone courses are culminating, project-based courses undertaken by university students in the final (senior) year of university.

A strength of capstone courses is that they involve students in applying their knowledge and skills to real-world projects. The Psyche mission is developing Psyche-focused projects for capstone courses across a range of disciplines.

Capstone Projects

Psyche capstone projects are underway for the 2019-2020 academic year (see list below), partnering with colleges and universities across the country. Join us!

Cobalt Class (2019-2020)

• 3-D Asteroid Viewer
• ARtifacts
• Capstone Administration Analysis
• Cracking the Code: Demonstrating the Debugging Mentality
• Future Spacecraft Materials
• Gaming Teamwork
• Hall Thruster Database
• Hall Thruster Visualization and Animation
• Iron Meteorite Imaging System
• Machine Learning Analysis of Hall Thruster Facility Effects Data
• Meteorite Database
• Meteorite Image Analysis System
• Mobile App
• Predicting Solar Wind Conditions with Machine Learning
• Psyche Communications Campaign
• Remote Exhibit Interpretive System
• Rendering High-Resolution Space Data
• Robotic Explorer for Hypothesized Surfaces
• Sampling System for Hypothesized Surfaces
• Space Mission Design
• Space Object Virtual Reality
• Spacecraft Virtual Reality

Iron Class (2018-2019)

Iron Class capstone projects
Iron Class participants and universities

Titanium Class (2017-2018)

Titanium Class capstone projects
Titanium Class participants

Psyche Capstone Resources

Read about our approach to interdisciplinary capstone projects:

Coordinating Opportunistic Interdisciplinary Projects Across Single-Discipline Capstone Courses (Capstone Design Conference, June 2018)

Preparing Students to Work in Diverse Settings and Across Distance: Inter-University, Interdisciplinary Capstone Teams (Undergraduate Research Programs Conference, June 2019)

Two Universities, Two Disciplines, One Project: Perspectives of a Project Manager and an Engineer (Psyche blog, July 31, 2019)

Future Capstone Projects

Additional Psyche-focused capstone projects that may be undertaken by any interested university capstone course are in development. If you are a university capstone course instructor or administrator (or future capstone student) and would like more information, please fill out our interest form: