2023 Spring Capstone Celebration
When: May 5, 2pm
Where: Sierra Hall Lobby
Background
Capstone project-based courses are valuable ways for students to prepare for careers in their respective industries. Lainez et al. [1] state that capstone projects deliver important skills such as 1) a basic understanding of business processes, 2) a product development with high-quality concerns, 3) know-how to conceive, design, implement and operate medium-size complexity systems and 4) communicative, initiative/leadership teamwork, analytical and problem solving and personal abilities. Capstone projects, as identified in Clarke [2], help increase student confidence and allow students to explore areas of technology not covered in the academic curriculum.
Instructions for Capstone Presenters
- CI Keys Webpage (https://cikeys.com/) including pages for student biography / testimonial, project background and rationale, and poster uploaded as PDF.
- Printed posters must be submitted to Coast Copy Center (copycenter@coast-repro.com) 3 business days before the presentations. This is a hard deadline!
- The poster should include an overview of the project, including its objectives, the methodology employed to undertake the project, the outcomes obtained, and conclusions.
- Poster templates will be 36”x 48” and can be found on the following website: http://www.csuci.edu/tli/ats/posters/.
- Students can have their posters printed at no charge on campus at the Coast Copy Center (Town Center) by providing their name and course number (COMP/IT 499).
- Easels to support the posters and tables to support laptops and other demonstration materials will be provided.
- Students should arrive 45 minutes prior to the start of the event (3:15 – 3:45) in order to setup posters and necessary equipment.
- Students should come prepared to discuss their work.
- Feel free to invite guests and take pictures. Computer Science and Information Technology will provide light food and drinks for the event.
- If you have any questions, feel to discuss them with your capstone adviser.
2015-16 First-Ever Capstone Celebration
Below are just a few of the memories from the 2015 and 2016 capstone celebrations!
Spring 2017 Capstone: https://goo.gl/photos/S2mRXHu3mtcTnyif8
Fall 2016 Capstone: https://goo.gl/photos/aeoHmMfxGkkLpyZQ8
Spring 2016 Capstone: https://goo.gl/photos/CHKTatnS1kCCoZrf6
Fall 2015 Capstone: https://goo.gl/photos/teVjRd243fPFs3vv6
References
- Lainez, M., Deville, Y., Dessy, A., Dejemeppe, C., Mairy, J., & Van Cauwelaert, S. (2014). “A Project-Based Introduction to Agile Software Development.” In L. Alves, P. Ribeiro, & R. Machado, Project-Based Learning: An Environment to Prepare IT Students for an Industry Career, pp. 230-249, IGI Global.
- Clarke, N. (2005). “Evaluating student teams developing unique industry projects.” Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference on Computing Education, pp. 21-30, Newcastle, Australia.