The GEN Donald R. Keith Memorial Capstone Conference is a forum for undergraduate students of systems engineering and related disciplines to present their capstone work to professionals, scholars, clients, and fellow students from other colleges and universities. The conference invites and attracts undergraduates to compete for conference presentation awards along with cadets from the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy (USMA).
Conference registration
- The registration survey will be published as the conference date gets closer.
Conference deadlines
- Papers due: 13 March 2026
- Reviews back to authors: 30 March 2026
- Registration deadline: 10 April 2026
- Final papers due: 10 April 2026
- Presentation slides due: 21 April 2026
- Capstone Conference: 23 April 2026
Program and schedule
- Papers should be submitted according to the format in the Microsoft Word or Latex template.
- The paper Submission Portal is available here.
- The Microsoft CMT service is used to manage the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services and software development and support.
