Integrating general education outcomes into a senior design capstone experience

The paper presents an innovative way of integrating general education outcomes into a capstone, senior design course sequence. The general education learning objectives defined by the California State University system and San Jose State University in particular are presented in the paper along with their counterparts from Student Outcomes of ABET Criterion 3. Specific assignments designed to address both are also discussed. Although the motivation for this integration was a State mandated unit reduction throughout the California State University system, the integration serves students well, as they can better see the relevance of their general education in their engineering work.