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Industry-based Senior Project in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Ken Christensen
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida 33620
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (813) 974-4761
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Overview of the department
• Faculty
– Chair: Larry Hall
– 33 faculty members (3 IEEE fellows)
• Students
– About 700 undergraduate and 160 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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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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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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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
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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
– Project web site (optional)
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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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