Industry-based Senior Project in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ken Christensen Professor and Interim Department Chair Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 33620 Email: christen@cse.usf.edu Phone: (813) 974-4761 KJC001 (sp2017.ppt – June 14, 2017) – Industry senior project presentation

Overview of the department Faculty Chair: Sudeep Sarkar 34 faculty members (25 tenure track, 9 instructors) Students About 900 undergraduate and 300 graduate students Degrees Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology Research areas include Computer vision, robotics, artificial intelligence, VLSI design, graphics and visualization, user interfaces, networks, distributed systems, security, databases, data mining, and others KJC002

Our senior project Senior project is the capstone course for Computer Engineering students The capstone course must be completed after all other required courses for the major Integrates the knowledge gained from those classes. Students must design and build something useful and significant KJC003

Benefits of industry participation Benefits for the students… Exposure to companies - potential future employers Interesting and relevant projects Involvement in local industry needs and “culture” A reality check Benefits for the companies… Complete projects that can’t get internal resources Exposure to potential future employees Shape student skills to solve real world problems KJC004

Project focus We need project ideas and champions A good project is… Technical Slightly open-ended Project scope: 2 to 4 students to complete within 3 months Not on the “critical path” for industry Not proprietary We need about 6 to 8 such projects for each semester Our seventeenth year! KJC005

Logistics Senior project class meets weekly for 2 hours Lecture Plus lab time Industry speakers solicited for lecture hour Address any technical topic of interest Monthly milestones Deliverables… Working hardware and/or software Poster Report News brief Oral presentation to industry KJC006

What is needed from you What is needed from you? 1) A project and a kick-off meeting with a student team 2) Mentoring (amount is up to you) 3) One guest lecture 4) Opportunity for students to present at your corporate site KJC007