Capstone Project Selection

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Capstone Project Selection

• Amir Niroumand
• amniroum_at_cs.sfu.ca
• 604-782-4407

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Course Objective

• Research, design, build, and test a device
• Integrate what you have learned
• Engineering design
• Technical
• Regulatory
• Business development
• Soft skills
• Assess your strengths and weaknesses

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Project evaluation

• Outstanding project
• Address a real problem
• Meet specifications
• Has an existing customer
• Accurate schedule
• Economically viable
• Useful documentation
• Convincing presentation

• Poor project
• Technically driven
• Specs not verified
• Fictitious customer
• Unrealistic schedule
• Poor pricing
• Incomplete and unorganized documents
• Ineffective presentation

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Project selection criteria

• Your project title should fit one of these
  categories
• Has a scientific value
• Has a customer
• Faculty endorsement
• Industry endorsement
• Continuation of previous projects

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Sample past projects (2005)

• ThinQ innovations
• Built for Kinesiology
• Exciting idea
• Complete work
• Reliable demo
• Good documentation

• Micro Fuel cell labs
• Funded by NRC
• Complete work
• Extensive testing
• Very organized
• Professional product brochure
• Website