# Jacob Morrise | Acing Your Senior Capstone Engineering Project

- Show: [Being an Engineer](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer)
- Published: 2022-03-11
- Length: 39m
- Episode: 10
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project
- Listen: https://teampipeline.us/jacob-morisse-acing-senior-capstone/

## Summary

Jacob Morrise, head of design and development at Morrise Products and adjunct faculty at BYU, discusses his decade of experience in mechanical product design, including his work on the first Ring doorbell and his current one-person consulting business. He shares advice for engineering students on acing capstone projects by embracing self-directed learning and understanding the full product lifecycle, from design to manufacturing. Morrise also details the realities of launching personal products on Amazon, covering costs like tooling, the risks of copycats, and the importance of marketing and patents.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project#t=0) Introduction and Family Life
- [2:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project#t=133) Balancing Entrepreneurship and Fatherhood
- [6:37](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project#t=397) Developing Engineering Skills Through Side Projects
- [14:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project#t=845) Launching Personal Products on Amazon
- [21:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project#t=1305) Career Advice and Capstone Coaching
- [30:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-03-11-jacob-morrise-acing-your-senior-capstone-engineering-project#t=1827) Financial Management and Starting a Business

## Topics

- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Starting a product company](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/starting-a-company)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)
- [Intellectual property](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/intellectual-property)
- [Design for manufacturing & NPI](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/design-for-manufacturing)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- IDEO (company)
- Ring (product)
- BYU (other)
- Amazon (other)
- Morrise Products (company)
- Pipeline Design & Engineering (company)

## Related episodes from other shows

- [Product Design with Simone Giertz](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2022-06-07-product-design-with-simone-giertz) (The Amp Hour)
- [Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2024-08-22-advice-line-with-jamie-siminoff-of-ring) (How I Built This)
- [180: Hardware Startup Tips for Non-Technical Founders](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2023-06-15-180-hardware-startup-tips-for-non-technical-founders) (Product Startup)
- [Ep. 8 - Ryan from V1 Engineering](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/open-hardware-manufacturing-podcast/2023-11-09-ep-8-ryan-from-v1-engineering) (Open Hardware Manufacturing Podcast)
- [Ring: Jamie Siminoff](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-06-22-ring-jamie-siminoff) (How I Built This)

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