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. Watch the video below to learn more about the opportunities the Psyche Mission’s capstone projects have to offer.

Capstone Projects

Psyche capstone projects are underway for the 2019-2020 academic year (see list below), partnering with colleges and universities across the country, including Arizona State University (ASU), California State University-Los Angeles (CSULA), Cleveland State University (CSU), Florida A&M University-Florida State University (FAMU-FSU), Northern Arizona University (NAU), Pennsylvania State University – Erie (Penn State – Erie), and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

Interested in joining us? Fill out our form below!

Cobalt Class (2019-2020)

• • • 3-D Asteroid Viewer (CSU, ASU – Tempe, ASU – Polytechnic)
    • ARtifacts
    • Capstone Administration Analysis
    • Cracking the Code: Demonstrating the Debugging Mentality
    • EPICS Classroom Activities
    • Future Spacecraft Materials
    • Gaming Teamwork (ASU – Tempe, ASU – Polytechnic)
    • Hall Thruster Database (ASU – Polytechnic, Penn State – Erie)
    • Hall Thruster Visualization and Animation (ASU – Tempe, ASU – Polytechnic, Penn State – Erie)
    • Iron Meteorite Imaging System (ASU, CSULA)
    • Machine Learning Analysis of Hall Thruster Facility Effects Data (Team Ion, Team Xenon, Penn State – Erie)
    • Meteorite Database
    • Meteorite Image Analysis System (ASU – Tempe, VCU)
    • Mobile Experience App (Team Iron, Team Nickel)
    • Predicting Solar Wind Conditions with Machine Learning (Team Helios, Team Plasma)
    • Psyche Publication Repository and Archive Database
    • Remote Exhibit Interpretive System
    • Rendering High-Resolution Space Data
    • Robotic Explorer for Hypothesized Surfaces (ASU – Polytechnic, CSU, FAMU-FSU, NAU)
    • Sampling System for Hypothesized Surfaces (ASU – Tempe, ASU – Polytechnic, NAU)
    • Space Mission Design (Team ANIMA, Team EROS)
    • Space Object Virtual Reality (CSU, ASU – Tempe, ASU – Polytechnic)
    • Spacecraft Virtual Reality
    • Mission Visualization
    • Psyche Inspired Admin
    • Senior Design Scalability

    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:

    Name*

    Title/Position*

    Institution*

    Email*

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    Capstone (or other project-based) course

    Length of course

    Number of students (on average)

    Preferred project topics