As other individuals have mentioned, my first experience with design control came from my Capstone Senior Design class at NJIT. Our course instructors and team advisors performed the role of external agencies (customers, FDA, consultants, project manager). Using their input and suggestions combined with research performed by individual team members, we were able to proceed through the project proposal process (PDF). We did market research to target customer needs, and developed our project scope. The team then moved onto the design development phase (DDP). We further refined our project objectives, scheduled multiple weekly meetings, defined team member roles, and established timetable (Gantt chart). While the overall objective remained the same throughout, every week required short term objective refinement, plans for achieving said objectives, and reshaping roles to fit needs and meet goals.

Design transfer was never realized, as the objective of the project was to develop a working prototype of our project. However, design input, design output, design specification, design verification, and design validation were all realized and documented by the end of the 2 semester capstone experience. Each step was only possible with considerable guidance from our instructors who provided critical project management.