 Senior design is really valuable to test out a new concept or a product, and in many cases this is the first experience a student has in moving through an entire design cycle, including the allocation of tasks and timing, tracking and progress, and getting a sense of when to reach out for help. Senior design actually adds another level of learning to your learning experience in school. They learn a lot of things that they didn't learn from the previous course. In class you learn about the theory, you do the math and the calculations, but you don't really get to see the real-world engineering of a project start to finish, and capstone allows us to, you know, get into the business case. What I like best about the senior design is it's your own idea, but your own idea with a group, so they can like be really proficient in their designs. One big benefit of senior design projects is that you can put it on your resume. It's really important for us to have projects on our resumes, and we incorporated project management, we incorporated an expenditure analysis. Working with real-life engineers and seeing what they do on a daily basis and how they utilize their education and their everyday lives at work, and the second big benefit was I am now an employee of the company that we worked with for our senior design project. Zach and his team were able to reduce the high soak time at the hottest temperature by 60%, and over the course of the first year after that change was implemented, that alone saved us $43 something thousand dollars. Fostering relationships between industry and universities is really what the biggest thing that comes out of these programs. I would say you have to go through senior design to graduate. There are way more things that Capstone can teach you.