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After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
Understand the components of the product, process, or system lifecycle.
Gain an understanding of common capstone team issues.
Gain ideas for a team capstone project.
Understand the elements of a successful project.
The ideal engineer is a composite. … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving problems. —Nathan Washington Dougherty
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. —Albert Einstein
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Hoffman, H.F. (2014). Innovative Capstone Project Examples. In: The Engineering Capstone Course. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05897-9_6
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