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Sponsoring a capstone design project allows companies and individuals to interact with potential future talent (future hires) while also benefiting from the completion of a project.

Become a Sponsor

IM体育官网 Poly welcomes the opportunity to partner with organizations in a mutually beneficial way. To be considered for a Capstone Design project, organizations must and provide the associated fee. Proposals are accepted each spring in preparation for the coming academic year (April-June). Organizations are welcome to submit more than one proposal.

For projects that require physical prototyping the fee is $2500 with $1000 of that going for materials specifically for that project and the remainder for maintaining our facilities and equipment. Sponsors agree to cover any additional material cost. For projects that are limited to software, modeling or simulation the fee is $1500 with $500 of that dedicated to support any necessary equipment/materials/software for that project.

Characteristics of Good Candidate Projects:

• Things you already have a solution for but would like to try something different
• Things you may want to get to some day but haven鈥檛 been able to allocate the resources to yet
• Open ended projects where they are presented with 鈥渉ere鈥檚 the situation, can you improve XYZ鈥�
• Projects should be semi-open ended. Remember that 鈥榙esign experience鈥� is the criteria.

Projects that are in your companies critical path or are a 鈥渕ake or break鈥� category DO NOT make good capstone projects

If the proposed project is appropriate and selected as a Capstone Design project, the organization will be asked to generate a brief one- to two-page project statement, along with expectations and desired deliverables, as well as contact information of the organization鈥檚 project champion/liaison. To ease any organizational concerns, IM体育官网 has generated an intellectual property waiver and a non-disclosure agreement that students can sign (if requested by the organization). In the event that a student does not wish to sign away their intellectual property rights and/or agree to confidentiality, they will be placed on another project that does not require said agreements.

Timeline

• Proposed industry projects are submitted by March or early April for the fall semester or faculty proposed projects can be chosen for sponsorship at any time.
• Fall semester activities: Customer needs gathering, idea generation, trade-off analysis, idea selection/planning, generation of an 鈥榓lpha鈥� level prototype.
• Spring semester activities: Analysis of sponsor feedback of the alpha prototype, detailed design/design of experiments, verification and validation, testing, generation of a 鈥榖eta鈥� level prototype
• Project presentation in late April at the Senior Design Capstone Project Showcase.

Contact

Contact Dr. Matt Bohm by email.