Technology Exploration
Try a new tool, framework, or approach through a student project without risking core resources.
Computer Science Capstone Handbook
Three terms, one team, one real project shipped to real users, with an industry or faculty partner.
For StudentsWhat each term asks of you, and the pages you'll use every week.
For Project PartnersGive a team of seniors a real project for three terms; it costs an hour a week.
For MentorsNo project idea? Student-proposed teams need an industry guide.
What Students Learn
Students take one project from a problem statement to a released artifact with real users, backed by engineering guides on requirements, design, testing, security, and deployment. Each student is assessed on four things partners hire for: critical thinking, arguing a hard technical decision in writing and defending it live; AI literacy, knowing how far to delegate and what checks make that reasonable; leadership, measured by decisions driven to a conclusion; and collaboration, proven across three terms on the same team.
Partner with the Course
Companies, faculty, and founders bring the projects. A project costs you about an hour a week and an evaluation each term.
Prototype Development
Get a working prototype or MVP that moves your own timeline forward.
Early Recruitment Pipeline
Work with seniors for nine months before they enter the job market.
Mentorship
Advise a student team, with or without a project of your own.