Originally Posted by unterhausen

I don't know what kind of engineering school lets students come up with their own ideas for senior design. For one thing, it would mean a lot more failed projects. I just can't imagine it for a solid U.S. engineering school. One thing that is done at our school is they have to do a patent search, which should give them a good idea that every single bicycle related invention that they will ever come up with has already been invented.