Capstone 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. Explore capstone opportunities below.
Capstone Opportunities
Use the table below to explore programs, dates and sponsorships fees. For more details about a specific opportunity, click the ">" symbol to expand the row.
Capstone Sponsorship
The Capstone course requires students to deliver:
- Functional Prototype or proof-of-concept that can be used to convey the experience of the product or service.
- Product Pitch to which the sponsor can invite attendees from within and outside of their organization.
- Detailed Documentation including all assets that can be used to guide the adoption, development, implementation and launch of a product or service.
- Case Study that describes the project without revealingconfidential information to be used for promotional purposes.
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.