Purchasing Process¶

Graphic below shows the process to get something purchased for a Capstone project. Flowchart describes full process from having an idea to the item arriving in your hands. There is generally no need for students to buy anything with personal money. Project Engineer review and approval is required at numerous steps to ensure actions are useful to the project and time/money is not wasted along the way.

• Why we go through this process is described here - Project_Engineers-Purchasing
• How the process goes is described in pretty graphics below
  • Or as a non-sexy numbered list here - Purchased_Part_Process_numbered.docx (Content is the same.)
• List of RPI Approved Vendors can be found here - Purchasing_Guidelines