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.

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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.

Capstone Opportunities at a Glance

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