Capstone Design Hub: Building the Capstone Design CommunityCapstone design courses are common across engineering programs nationwide. Yet, manydepartments and programs rely on one faculty member or a small handful of faculty members toteach their capstone design course. As a result these faculty members find themselves isolated,with limited mechanisms for sharing ideas and networking with peers who have similarresponsibilities and concerns. The inaugural National Capstone Design Course Conference washeld in June 2007 to bring together, for the first time, a broad range of capstone design facultyfrom across the country and even internationally. The enthusiasm from this conference led to asecond conference in June 2010, renamed the Capstone Design Conference to showcase thegrowing international interest and participation in capstone design. The 2010 conferenceincluded attendees from 89 institutions across a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines,reflecting the diversity of capstone design programs both domestically and internationally. The2012 Capstone Design Conference will happen this summer, and plans are in place to hold suchconferences biennially with the conference themes evolving to promote continued discussionsand collaboration.One outcome of the 2010 Capstone Design Conference was consensus recognition of the needfor better documentation and dissemination of effective practices and other resources acrossmultiple aspects of capstone design programs. A further outcome from the conference was adesire to build an online presence for the capstone community to collect and share resources,encourage conversations, and foster connections. Supported by initial funding from theEngineering Information Foundation, a subgroup of the capstone design community is currentlybuilding this Capstone Design Hub to serve as a repository for useful curricular materials, avirtual working space for future working groups, a forum for discussions and questions, and anetworking space for project ideas and collaboration ...