ECS 193A: Capstone Project

Subject
ECS 193A
Title
Capstone Project
Status
Active
Units
3.0
Effective Term
2017 Winter Quarter
Learning Activities
Lecture/Discussion: 3.0 hours
Description
Responding to real-life client design challenges, student teams plan, implement, and evaluate large-scale projects involving computer and computational systems. Project supervised by a faculty member. Must take ECS 193A & ECS 193B to receive credit. GE Prior to Fall 2011: SciEng. GE: SE.
Prerequisites
ECS 160 { can be concurrent }; ECS 150; upper division standing in Computer Science or Computer Science Engineering; or consent of instructor.
Enrollment Restrictions
Pass One open to Computer Science Engineering Majors only; Pass Two open to Computer Science and Computer Science Engineering Majors only.

Summary of Course Content
Under the supervision of a faculty member, each project team will research the solution to an open-ended interdisciplinary computer-science-related design problem, develop a precise problem statement, propose a design that solves the problem, implement a prototype design, validate the design and report on the results. Design problems may be proposed by the supervising faculty member, by a research program in another department, by an industrial partner, by government agencies, by non-profits, by outside individuals, or by the student team. Proposed design problems are approved by the instructor. Student projects must satisfy a rich set of real-world design constraints and relevant engineering standards. Deliverables will include a written design document, an implementation of the design, and an oral presentation of the results of the project.

Illustrative Reading
students work in teams to complete group project work

Potential Course Overlap
None

Final Exam
No Final Exam

Course Category

Upper Division