September 25, 2009 —

A Fully Interdisciplinary Approach to Capstone Design Courses. This paper reviews and publishes the piloting of a program to mix the embedded systems capstone design course in the Ming Hsieh department of Electrical Engineering with Marketing 446, New Product Development and Fine Arts 402, Advanced Design Projects. Teams of students from their respective disciplines work together to define, prototype, and market a consumer electronic device.