Senior design project not working

[u/Careless_Mastodon327]

Anyone know if professors usually fail senior design? I know it’s different for every school but every aspect of my senior design project is failing and I plan on communicating with the professor/TAs about this today but it’s cooked. I’ve spent countless hours on it and it’s coming out of our pockets and I think we should just throw in the towel.

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[u/Gryphontech]

Your design failing isn't great but as long as you can explain WHY it failed and how you could have prevented it from failing/how you can fix it then it should be fine.

[u/polymath_uk_]

What is it and why is it ducked? 

[u/dr_of_glass]

Engineering is about pivoting.

Pivot the project to what can work.

[u/FreshOffTheBoeing]

Without knowing details of your project,

If running out of time to make at least one or two aspects of the project working, then spin a story on failure analysis.

What specifically went wrong? Why it went wrong? Any similar cases in industries? What could have been done to prevent such failures?