Capstone Opportunities

Capstone 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/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.