Capstone Projects
Sponsorship Opportunities
Capstone projects offer companies direct access to highly trained, intensely motivated students applying their advanced skills and expertise to a wide range of challenges and opportunities.
Working with faculty supervision, teams focus on sponsor-defined projects that result in the exploration of solutions and potentially a proof-of-concept or prototype. Capstones are the culmination of the graduate or undergraduate program experience.
Sponsorship
Sponsors Can Expect
- A team of two to eight students focused on a sponsor-defined project over one or two semesters.
- Faculty supervision, and mid-term and final presentations.
- Capstones often deliver a publication-quality report and a conference-style presentation. Many of the teams publish their results in top-tier conferences and workshops.
Benefits
- Exposure to innovative, insightful ideas.
- Access to highly trained students for problem-solving and recruitment purposes.
- Developing relationships with world-renowned faculty.
- Building brand awareness within the campus community.
- Input on the problem statement from Carnegie Mellon professor(s).
- Licensing options to student work product(s) developed during the course.
Requirements
- A problem to solve and/or data to analyze.
- A company mentor who is available for a specified number of contacts and meetings with the student team.
- A signed Educational Project Agreement.
- Payment of the capstone fee.
Sample Project Themes
- Develop a new technology product offering (from ideation to commercialization).
- Optimize a delivery distribution network.
- Complete customer discovery.
- Develop autonomous robots.
- Perform market analysis.
- Implement AI systems responsive to market needs.
- Conduct technical research and feasibility evaluation.
- Evaluate privacy-enhancing technologies for organizations.