1. 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
Phone: (813)
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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!
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6. 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
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7. 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
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