Together, the courses create a vertical project track under which students work in teams on long-term engineering projects. Each team consists of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Projects are of at least one-year duration.
In general, students are expected to participate in a project team for at least two consecutive semesters, and students may participate for up to seven semesters. The reporting schedule is summarized here . All students are required to maintain a Design Notebook . All activities related to the project, including individual efforts and ideas, relevant material and discussions from lecture, contacts, team sessions, and conversations and meetings with the project partner, are to be date-recorded in the notebook. Design notebooks are to be kept in ink.