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CPEP
 

The Capstone Project Electronic Portfolio (CPEP) is a web‐based project and information center. It contains material produced for a year‐long Senior Thesis class. Its purpose, in addition to providing central storage of individual assignments, is to foster communication and collaboration between student, faculty consultant, course instructors, and industry consultants. This website is dedicated to the research and analysis conducted via guidelines provided by the Department of Architectural Engineering. For an explanation of this capstone design course and its requirements click below.

 

Architectural Engineering Senior Thesis
 

During their time spent at Penn State, each member of the Architectural Engineering (AE) major develops a senior thesis throughout the final year. After being sponsored by a company, they utilize the building information that they have been provided to complete this project. The first semester has the students gaining an understanding of the building and its components. The second semester allows the students to change something on the building, and then analyze the change that they made in an attempt to understand and learn what their changes impacted, positively or negatively. 

 

NOTE: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work-in-progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Drew Nicholas. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.

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