Requirements
Check whether the requirements are measurable, traceable, realistic, and connected to stakeholder needs.
Engineering capstone support
Independent mentor feedback on requirements, architecture, risk, prototypes, validation, and the evidence behind technical decisions.
The purpose
An engineering capstone is more than a working object. Review should connect the problem, requirements, design trade-offs, safety and implementation risks, validation method, and results. StudyLabX is planning milestone-based reviews that help students identify gaps while keeping every design decision and deliverable student-owned.
Review lenses
Check whether the requirements are measurable, traceable, realistic, and connected to stakeholder needs.
Compare interfaces, constraints, failure points, alternatives, and the reasons behind the selected design.
Connect each important claim to a test, calculation, inspection, demonstration, or documented limitation.
What review can cover
The mentor may examine system boundaries, assumptions, component selection, interface definitions, tolerance or capacity arguments, safety considerations, prototype limitations, and test coverage. Feedback identifies questions and corrective actions; it does not replace the student's calculations, build, report, or assessment.
Where a project includes software or AI, the review can also connect code quality, datasets, model evaluation, deployment constraints, and reproducibility to the broader engineering case.
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