ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to present a number of capstone projects that demonstrate both the modeling and programming skills that have been acquired throughout this book. Typically, the projects should be undertaken over a period of about four weeks while students work through the remainder of the modeling and programming content. The projects can be completed by groups of students or by individuals with the expected outcomes adjusted according to the number of students completing the work. Each projects require some research about the system being modeled, the programming of a basic model, the addition of one or more additional model components to relax some of the initial assumptions, model runs to answer one or more research questions, model verification, model validation where possible, and presentation of the results orally and in writing.
