2025_EML Capstone Projects

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Mentor Link Solutions: A Hybrid Mentorship and Knowledge Retention Model

Shared documents and Slack were utilized heavily for communication to ensure adequate progress

tracking and workload balancing. Table 1 lists the key project activities for each week, the assigned

individual, and a completion status that demonstrates adherence to our agreed-upon schedule.

Table 1

Team Mentor Link Solutions Project Schedule

Week

Task / Milestone

Responsible Party

Status

Week 1 Finalize team roles, draft initial problem statement

Both team members Completed early

Conduct a literature review and outline a data collection plan

Anthony (research), Luai (slides)

Week 2

Completed early

Week 3 Analyze data, complete decision framework evaluation Both Conduct risk assessment and change management analysis Finalize recommendations, release final report, and develop draft presentation Week 5 Conduct product evaluation and an improvement plan Anthony Week 6 Week 4

On time

Luai (matrix), Anthony (SWOT)

Completed early Completed early

Both Both

In progress

Week 7 Finalize, record, and release presentation

On track

Data Collection and Analysis

With this project aimed at providing a consulting service across numerous general engineering

industries, we sought data that would help us understand the extent of the problem, examine potential

solutions, and evaluate feasibility.

Data Sources

We identified and evaluated information from peer-reviewed journals, professional white

papers, government labor projections, and case studies from organizations such as NASA and Deloitte.

We completed an extensive literature review, as noted in the Background and Literature Review section,

to identify previous research, theories, and industry practices relevant to our project. The U.S. Bureau of

Labor Statistics data on engineer age demographics and retirement trends, MIT Sloan Management

Review foundational theory connecting mentorship and tacit knowledge transfer, NASA Knowledge