Applying Knowledge Management Systems to ASU Capstone Courses: Implementing Knowledge Sharing Practices to Better Capture Data and Lessons Learned from Year-Long Capstone Projects

In the past, Industrial Engineering/Engineering Management Capstone groups have not provided adequate documentation of their project data, results, and conclusions to both the course instructor and their project sponsors. The goal of this project is to mitigate these issues by instituting a knowledge management system with one of ASU’s cloud storage tools, OSF, and by updating course rubrics to reflect knowledge sharing best practices. This project used existing research to employ tactics that promote the long-term use of this system. In addition, data specialists from ASU Library’s Research and Data Management department were involved.