IPPD is an experiential multidisciplinary design program where teams of students complete real projects for sponsoring companies and agencies. Dr. Stanfill has recruited over 300 industry-sponsored projects and directed the efforts of over 1900 senior-level engineering and business students for the IPPD program. In 2003, he helped create the Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program and serves as Chair of the ITV Board of Directors. The ITV program exposes students to the realities of technology start-up companies while assisting UF researchers in commercializing their technological innovations. Virtual companies comprised of engineering, business, and law students identify market opportunities, develop business plans, and produce prototype systems. Each ITV team is led by an experienced entrepreneurial CEO and features hands-on guidance from engineering, business, and law faculty. Prior to joining UF, Dr. Stanfill spent ten years with United Technologies where he designed fighter aircraft gas turbine hardware for Pratt & Whitney, served as a key resource to the Carrier Corporation New Product Development Council Steering Committee, facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internationally, developed business process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and developed and implemented manufacturing systems software. His interests include technology transfer, product development, design education, DFx, and entrepreneurship.

Faculty mentors, also known as coaches, have two overarching roles when mentoring industrially sponsored capstone design projects: (1) ensure the team achieves the academic goals of the course, and (2) keep the team focused on the design project goals. The Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program at the University of Florida is a fully institutionalized experiential educational course sequence. Through weekly classes held over two semesters (eight months), students from various engineering and business disciplines are taught how to design products and processes. Then working in small multidisciplinary teams the students design and build authentic industrial products under the guidance of faculty coaches and industrial liaison engineers representing the sponsoring companies. Over a fourteen-year period, spanning more than 340 industry-sponsored design projects, a wide variety of interaction patterns have been observed between project teams and their coaches. With help from the best faculty coaches, and guidance from published literature on team dynamics and "coaching for success," a "how-to" guide was developed as a resource for faculty project coaches. This guide includes elements such as an overview of the IPPD program, roles and responsibilities for various stakeholders, a collection of best practices for mentoring and conflict management, and a frequently-asked-questions section. Since the IPPD program is multidisciplinary, an appendix with a set of expectations for each participating undergraduate discipline was developed. The IPPD Coach Guide is intended to be a framework for capturing and sharing with the capstone design community a set of best practices for team mentoring.

He received his B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida in 1985Florida in , 1991Florida in and 1995 Dr. Stanfill has over ten years' industrial experience and has designed gas turbine hardware for fighter aircraft--most recently the Joint Strike Fighter. He served as a key resource to the New Product Development Council Steering Committee, facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internationally, developed business process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and developed and implemented manufacturing systems software. His interests include technology transfer, product development, design education and DFx. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Florida and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Engineering Education.

is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is invested in building the capstone design community; she is a leader in the biannual Capstone Design Conferences and the Capstone Design Hub initiative. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials. She holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell. Ms. Sophia L Poulos, Smith CollegeSophia Poulos is an engineering student at Smith College. She is interested in structural engineering and has worked on earthquake engineering projects through NEES activities at UCLA. She is a research assistant on the CDHub 2.0 initiative. IPPD is an experiential multidisciplinary design program where teams of students complete real projects for sponsoring companies and agencies. Dr. Stanfill has recruited over 300 industry-sponsored projects and directed the efforts of over 1900 senior-level engineering and business students for the IPPD program. In 2003, he helped create the Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program and serves as Chair of the ITV Board of Directors. The ITV program exposes students to the realities of technology start-up companies while assisting UF researchers in commercializing their technological innovations. Virtual companies comprised of engineering, business, and law students identify market opportunities, develop business plans, and produce prototype systems. Each ITV team is led by an experienced entrepreneurial CEO and features hands-on guidance from engineering, business, and law faculty.Prior to joining UF, Dr. Stanfill spent ten years with United Technologies where he designed fighter aircraft gas turbine hardware for Pratt & Whitney, served as a key resource to the Carrier Corporation New Product Development Council Steering Committee, facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internationally, developed business process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and developed and implemented manufacturing systems software. His interests include technology transfer, product development, design education, DFx, and entrepreneurship.He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Florida and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, the Institute for Industrial Engineers, the UF Faculty Senate, the UF Sustainability Committee, and the UF College of Engineering Faculty Council. He is the faculty advisor for the UF Men The capstone design community includes faculty, administrators, industry representatives, students, and other stakeholders involved with capstone design courses across the U.S. and internationally. The Ca...

He received his B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida in 1985, 1991 and 1995, respectively. Dr. Stanfill has over ten years of industrial experience with United Technologies Corporation and has designed gas turbine hardware for fighter aircraft, including the Joint Strike Fighter. He served as a key resource to the Carrier New Product Development Council Steering Committee, facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internationally, developed business process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and developed and implemented manufacturing systems software. His interests include technology transfer, entrepreneurship, product development, design education and Design for X. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Florida and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education. Thuriya Rajkumar, University of Florida Thuriya Rajkumar is a Global Logistics Improvement Leader in the After-market Division at Cummins Engine Ltd. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2006 at Anna University in India and his M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida in 2008. He served as a Teaching Assistant at UF for the Industrial & Energy Management course and helped the professor revise the course syllabus to create a more interactive research based learning methodology for the students. He is actively involved as an alumni with the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the Indian Student Association (ISA) at UF. Thuriya's main interest lies in continuous improvement and Lean in Global Supply Management and Distribution.