SENIOR PROJECTS

Objectives of Industry Partnership in Senior Projects

By providing high level education in the fields of information and communication technologies with the help of our qualified teaching staff, who have strong academic background as well as industrial experience, we, as the Department of Information Systems and Technologies, aim at preparing our students for a promising career in this dynamic and fast developing field and bringing them up as individuals, competing in technical respects, having high self confidence, apting to team work, and being experts in human relations.

Always keeping this mission in mind, our senior students realize software Senior Projects as a requirement of the courses "CTIS411-Senior Project I" and "CTIS456-Senior Project II". The projects are developed and documented with respect to software engineering standards. We consider the great contribution of university-industry collaboration, both to our students and the industry. Senior projects provides an opportunity for realization of the projects that companies plan to accomplish, but cannot afford due to their limited time and human resources. On the other hand, being motivated with the involvement in a real life software project design and development process, our students gain experience by intensively applying design and development tools and methodologies currently used in the software industry. Therefore, we urge projects done in cooperation with the industry, where both the student teams and the sponsors derive benefit.

Seniors form teams of 3-4 students at the beginning of Fall Semester. Each team is ultimately responsible for the completion of its project. A faculty member, assigned to each team upon team formation, acts primarily as guide, mentor, and coach. However, the faculty member is not supposed to actively manage the project, but act as a general consultant. This organization is applied whether the project is proposed by an external partner or not.

CTIS strongly encourages industrial and non-profit partners to sponsor senior projects.

Sponsor Responsibilities

During project project development process, the sponsor is expected to commit the resources, including personnel, documents, standards, etc., needed to ensure the project's success. Specifically, the sponsor will: