Capstone course creates useful business products and corporate-ready students

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 87-92

  Bruhn, Russel E ^a   Camp, Judy ^b  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Capstone course; Collaborative projects; Corporate experience; Senior design project; Team projects

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

CAPSTONE COURSE; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; CORPORATE EXPERIENCE; SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS; TEAM PROJECTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 33645776244     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1024338.1024379     Document Type: Review

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