Failure Mode: An Engineering Capstone Case Study of Educating Despite Failures

In the modern engineering curriculum, the highlight of the students' careers is the capstone class where they get to show off their abilities.However, the greatest learning tool they experience is failure.Capstone projects can be challenging.In this paper, a case study of five teams working on the same project in a competition modality are tasked with constructing a coil gun.Each team is faced with different challenges including exploding components.Despite the setbacks, each team felt that they learned a great deal and would do the project again given the opportunity.