ME 481 is a required course for mechanical engineering majors at MSU.

The course provides students with a team-based capstone design experience in which they:

• Use the technical expertise, communication skills, and teaming methodologies they have learned throughout their mechanical engineering curriculum, together with their creativity, to solve real-world problems
• Collaborate with practicing engineers to address problems sponsored by industry
• Develop new products or re-design existing products to reduce costs or enhance reliability
• Interact with large, medium, and small companies in the automotive, defense, aerospace, consumer products, interior design and material processing industries.

For a list of projects, see Mechanical Engineering Projects.

More information can be found at Mechanical Engineering.