KJC001 (sp2015.ppt – May 12, 2015) – Industry senior project presentation 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 Phone: (813)

Faculty – Chair: Larry Hall – 31 faculty members (3 IEEE fellows) Students – About 550 undergraduate and 120 graduate students Degrees –Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology Research areas – Computer vision, robotics, artificial intelligence, VLSI design, graphics, user interfaces, networks, security, databases, data mining, and others KJC002 Overview of the department

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 KJC003 Our senior project

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 KJC004 Benefits of industry participation

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 KJC005 We need about 6 to 8 such projects for each semester Project focus Our fifteenth year!

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) KJC006 Logistics

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 KJC007 What is needed from you