CHECK THESE OUT Your time at Tufts will see you diving deep into your academic interests, exploring niche topics and finding unique connections across disciplines. After your years of exploration, classwork, and community engagement, you will have the opportunity to showcase your work through a capstone project or senior thesis. Every undergraduate school at Tufts has some form of final project in which students share the culmination of their work with the broader community. From the interdisciplinary engineering capstone projects that bring together a team across disciplines to tackle a self-guided project, to the senior thesis program and exhibition hosted at SMFA, to the myriad capstones and theses offered by nearly every department in the School of Arts and Sciences, Jumbos are encouraged to celebrate their intellectual curiosity. Read on to see just a few examples of recent projects and get an idea of the interdisciplinary, intellectually curious work that Tufts undergraduates do. BY VALERIA VELASQUEZ ’23
Alex Bobroff ’23, George Eng ’23, Matthew Dilsizian ’23, Zack Rummler ’23, Max Menestrier ’23, Ibrahima Barry ’23: Celestial Blue Team - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering For their engineering senior capstone project, members of the Celestial Blue Team designed a high fidelity flight computer for amateur rocketry. Citing the difficulties in computerized parachute deployment in amateur rocketry which can hinder successful recovery of the rocket, the team built their “own flight computer intended to deploy the parachutes as a function of rocket height, speed, and orientation.”
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