Over 22 year ago Bart Kemper graduated from LSU as his professor, AJ McPhate, retired from LSU. He then hired Bart at KnightHawk. Bart never quite felt like he graduated. Bart and AJ met at LSU once again to support the LSU Engineering Capstone program, where Mechanical, Electrical, and Biological Engineering students get their first taste of taking on an engineering project. First semester they select, fund, and design. Second semester they build. Bart and AJ are both long-standing members of the Industry Panel, a group that assists by providing realistic, experience-based feedback to the students as well as providing formal evaluations used for grading. The first week of December saw over 140 engineers seniors work at applying their education to real-world problems.
The Industry Panel has gained significance as the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) uses the feedback from the Industry Panel as one of the tools to gauge how effective LSU’s faculties translate teaching objectives into learned knowledge. ABET has lauded LSU’s success and is using LSU as one of the examples for using this technique in other universities.
http://www.mie.lsu.edu/academics/undergraduate/capstone
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