Lessons and Experiences From Teaching Computing Science Capstone Project Courses
Kewei Sha · 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI) · 2021
Capstone projects are bridges that connect institutional education and real-world industry settings. In the Capstone project course, a group of students work as a team on a real-world project that is usually provided by local industry. Instructors of Capstone project course work together with industry mentors to guide the Capstone teams to complete a team-long project beginning from requirement analysis. The success of the project depends on many factors. It is a challenge for an instructor to help the Capstone students to reach all the goals of the project. In this paper, we share lessons and experiences learned from the practices of teaching the Capstone project for many years.