CS189/172 Capstone Project Kickoff Meeting Tevfik Bultan, Rich Wolski and Chris Coakley Computer Science Department Andrew Elliott COE Corporate Relations

Capstone Project Class Two quarter project class in which students put their education into practice by building a significant system as a team —Learn by doing —Chance to explore the latest technologies —Provide practical experience as a form of career building Capstone is mandatory for Computer Engineering majors and elective for Computer Science Majors Two flavors of Capstone are available —ECE 189 A/B –Focuses on development of a hardware prototype –Runs Fall/Spring every year so chips can be fabricated during the Winter —CS 189 A/B –Software systems engineering oriented –Runs Winter/Spring to allow continuity

CS 189 A/B Students who define their own projects for CS189 —Often the projects have commercial appeal —Occasionally they have had commercial impact and/or viability Students who want to work on cutting-edge projects from industry —World-class technology and industry leaders have agreed to participate –“donate” cutting-edge problems –Help provide guidance Open to all senior-level CS and CE students who are not enrolled in or have taken ECE 189 Purpose of tonight’s meeting is to break the ice —Begin the thought processes necessary to find a project —Facilitate “matchmaking” between student interests and potential project collaborators

Agenda Tevfik -- Course Logistics Dave Giannini —VP Engineering Andrew Duncan —Senior Software Engineer Eron Howard —VP Development Mohamed Hafez —Software Engineer (and former CS189 student) Martin Rhoads —Systems Engineer (and former CS189 student)

What Happens in 189A? 189A first week (Jan. 7-11) —Company representatives present the challenge problems —Students form teams (3-5 members each) and pick projects 189A goals —Specify what the product will do —Design the product —Build a prototype –Typically teams iterate on these three activities until they converge to a working prototype! 189A (March 20) —Prototype demonstration

What Happens in 189B? 189B (March 31-April 4) —Prototype demonstration to company representatives to get feedback 189B goals —Build a full product –Implement all the parts that were omitted in the prototype for 189A —Test the product —Prepare a presentation 189B final (June 5) —Project presentation day –This is the big event where the teams present their projects to a lot of people!

Two Course Sequence This is a two course sequence: CS189A/172 and CS189B —In order to develop a full product your team has to participate to both courses CE students are required to take both courses For CS students CS189A/172 and CS189B are electives but we strongly encourage CS students to take both courses —The students who participated in both 189A/B courses last year were very proud of the outcome and their projects became the most important item in their CVs —If you take both CS189A and CS189B you get to participate to the presentation day showing your project to your peers, faculty, company representatives, and your family!

Student Comments After the Class I enjoyed the structure of this class & I think applying our efforts to “real world” problems given by companies is extremely effective. The pairing with industry is great. I found this course to be very interesting and helpful to my pursuit of a Computer Science degree and Software Engineering job. Working with companies was motivational and fun.

Student Comments After Graduation "As far as getting a job goes, CS189 is probably one of the most useful things you can do as an undergrad." Brendan Blackwood, iContact “CS189 not only helped me during job interviews but also the project I am working on with PowerPoint is very similar to the project that my group worked on (the online slide sharing app)” Melissa Hunter, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft "Many projects I am working on now I find myself going through the same steps I did in CS189 class. From gathering requirements, producing design specs, and ultimately presenting my work." Chris Fattarsi, Web Developer, NASA Ames Research Center

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