Thank you for sharing interest in my Senior Thesis project. I would like to thank Alexander Building Construction, LLC and the Penn State Architectural Engineering Department for all their help and support in this year long endeavor.

Senior Thesis is a project oriented, two course sequence that provides a comprehensive learning experience for Penn State Architectural Engineering students using actual buildings and typical industry design and construction contraints. Students must maintain a comprehensive captone project electronic portfolio (CPEP) or their work on the e-studio site. At the end of each year, Senior Thesis students are required to provide a detailed written summary report and present their work to a faculty jury. From these presentation, a select group of students are chosen by the faculty to represent their class by presenting their thesis projects to an invited Awards Jury of industry representatives from all over the country.

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 here.