Secondary mentor

I think the secondary mentor for capstone should be required.  Having another person to bounce ideas off of and critique your work.  I think there role is can be a variety of things.  The two main things are, being someone with expertise in an area that your mentor is not as well versed.  The other is to be a fresh set of eyes to your project as you continually progress in accomplishing it.  They can critique things that they see for the first time that they weren't aware was going to happen unlike your mentor who knows everything that is going to be taking place in your project.  I don't think a secondary mentor should be someone that has the same expertise as your primary mentor.  This almost defeats the purpose of the secondary mentor all together.  The secondary mentor is there to help make your project more diverse than what you originally intended it to be.

I think both Ricardo and Professor Defazio would be good secondary mentors.  They both have skills that I can incorporate into my project and help make it more diverse.  I also think finding someone in the industry would be very helpful.  They could help develop your project in a real world setting.  The only thing I have against a industry mentor is that they will skew your idea into what the industry standard is and risk your shot of doing something new and possibly creating the new industry standard.