Complete Guide to Structuring Your Capstone Portfolio
Portfolio Overview
The team Capstone Portfolio represents the biography of the Capstone organized around the Engineering Design Process (EDP) components. It is used as a source of information to prepare the Capstone Exhibition Poster and contributes to your final exhibition mark.
Each team has exactly one portfolio.
Portfolio is used to gather information (both process and products) for each component of the EDP.
Each team is assigned a TEAM NUMBER.
One team member sets up the portfolio following the template and ensures all members have access.
Each team’s Portfolio Name MUST follow this format:
Year-Semester Number-Team Number
Example for grade 1 group #7: 2021-1-07
I
Chapter I: Present and Justify a Problem and Solution Requirements
Egypt Grand Challenge(s)
Which Egyptian Grand Challenge(s) are you addressing, and why are they important to address?
Note: Specify only the grand challenges that are related to the capstone problem or big idea.
Problem to be Solved
What specific problem are you addressing?
What are the impacts or consequences related to dealing with that problem?
Explain the major positive impacts (if problem is solved) and negative impacts (if not solved).
Research
Which topics did you research about the problems? Explain further topics that will help in deeper understanding.
Which topics did you research about the solutions? Explain further topics related to possible approaches of solving the problem.
Other Solutions Already Tried
What are the prior solutions that have been applied trying to solve this problem?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of those solutions?
II
Chapter II: Generating and Defending a Solution
Solution and Design Requirements
What characteristics (Solution Requirements) should a successful solution have, and how could each make the solution successful?
Include general solution requirements that must be in any effective, efficient, and successful solution.
Which specific design requirements did you choose and why?
Selection of Solution
Describe the solution you decided to pursue for your prototype and why you chose it.
Demonstrate the idea of the prototype you will build to solve the problem.
Selection Prototype
Describe in detail the prototype (design and construction) you have decided to construct.
How will it meet the design requirements you have chosen?
III
Chapter III: Constructing and Testing a Prototype
Materials and Methods
List the materials you used to make your prototype.
Include a Table with: Item, quantity, description, usage, cost, source of purchase, picture.
List the safety precautions you took to ensure your team is being safe.
Test Plan
List the design requirements you have chosen to test with your prototype.
List the steps for each test plan to conduct on the prototype associated with each design requirement.
Data Collection
What measurement tools or instruments did you use?
What level of precision as well as the error did you use in measurement?
List all data collected in each test plan.
Data visual representation should be in a table and/or graph format.