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The Senior Capstone Project course has been enhanced to become a new Senior Design Project course. Every Senior Design Project in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences (SCCS) is a two-semester course required for all seniors to graduate. Having successfully completed most of the Computer Science curriculum, students must solve real-world technical problems posed by the industry sponsors. Each team of 3-5 seniors is mentored through the project by a SCCS professor in collaboration with an engineer or a manager from the company.  

Guidelines for Sponsors:

  • Projects are not work for hire: A Senior Design Project is a learning experience for students that will be evaluated as an academic course. A project is also a means for fostering collaborative relationships with potential future employees.
  • Project cost is a gift to the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences: The cost of the project is a gift to the school payable by October 1, as opposed to compensation for completion of the project to the satisfaction of the sponsor. This gift covers the cost of administrative overhead, lab costs and the costs of any procured hardware/software, travel expenses, etc. The sole evaluation of the students' performance is the letter grade earned at the end of each semester. 
  • Projects are separate: When a company sponsors multiple projects it should be understood that the projects are separate and there should not be any expectation that there will be coordination across projects.

Result:

Our industry partners gain first-hand experience of teaming up with potential employees with no commitment other than to help the project succeed. Projects can span a wide range of possibilities including researching and analyzing problem, conceptualizing a new or alternate solution, designing new or refining existing software, or constructing a working prototype based on a specification. Our students learn how to work collaboratively in a corporate setting while producing professional periodic progress reports and demonstrations of their accomplishments.

Benefits to Sponsors:

  • Value: For a modest fee, a team of four or five "almost engineers" will partner with you, report to you and be supervised by both you and our faculty. As they have real responsibilities resolving technical and design challenges for you, it costs a fraction what you would pay full-time employees for the same type of project. A typical student team will be engaged on the project for about 32 weeks, during an academic year, from the end of August to the beginning of May. The cost to the industry sponsor is $10,000. 
  • Workforce development and recruiting: This partnership can provide a pipeline of talent to fill growing numbers of high-tech vacancies as sponsors will have the opportunity to collaborate with, cultivate and evaluate undergraduate students as prospective employees. This is also a particularly low-cost option when compared with the costs of procuring professional recruiting services to meet staffing needs. 
  • Tackling a challenge or exploring a new idea: The Senior Design project is a cost-effective way for companies to tackle a technical challenge or explore new ideas without the large investment typically associated with product development. Our students and faculty will assist you to research and analyze the problem, conceptualize alternate solutions, design and develop a system or a process, etc.
Interested in your company sponsoring the next Senior Design Project course?

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706-729-2078

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Project List

A Virtual Reality Game for Public Health Awareness- Center for Instructional Innovation

 The goal of this project was to create an immersive virtual reality game for children in low-income areas in order to educate and improve cognitive awareness of hand washing and avoidance of insanitary practices. The results of the project will be utilized by Augusta University medical students who are gaining hands on experience in the community.
2022

Written Character Recognition in Augmented Reality- Savannah River National Laboratory 

 In this project, the team built a system that allows users to hand-write characters using a virtual pen and paper.  Then the system recognizes and reacts to the user’s written words and numbers. This makes use of an AR display’s internal camera systems, algorithms to process images and depth information, machine learning, and interaction with 3D assets.
2022

Terminal Respiratory Secretions (TRS) Rating Scale Application- Augusta University Physiological & Technological Nursing

 This capstone project involved building a smartphone/web application to rate terminal respiratory secretions for use in end-of-life research and clinical inpatient and outpatient hospice care. The results will be used in clinical research and practice to improve the rating consistency and management of terminal respiratory secretions.
2022

Best Lawyers - Lawyer Detail View

Best Lawyers maintains a MS SQL Server instance that houses information on lawyers in a range of databases. This data is accessed by proprietary in-house CMS systems: LawMart, Intranet, Accounting, BestLawyers.com, Lawyers.USNews.com.
2019

Savannah River National Lab - High Performance Computing Cluster

This project deals with the design and implementation of a system monitoring tool that collates server statistics from several different sources, stores them in a database, displays them to the user, allows for customization of display, and allows the user to query historical data.
2019

AnaVation LLC - Dynamic Resource Generation for Active Cyber Defense

 This Senior Design Project deals with the dynamic generation of decoy resources for active cyber defense. Students will design server decoys for dynamic deployment in response to a cyber-attack. Additionally, students will develop prototypes of semi-automated mechanisms for deploying resources.
2020

AnaVation LLC - Cloud Microservices Orchestration Framework

This Senior Design Project (SDP) deals with the development of a Microservices Orchestration Framework. Student teams will develop domain specific language that will establish an enterprise integration framework and microservices standard.
2020

AnaVation LLC - PARADISE Explorer/Data Processing Calculator

This Senior Design Project proposed students to build a calculator where a user can tune a multitude of inputs and variables that would exist in a PARADISE framework.
2021

AnaVation LLC - Microedge

This Senior Design Project deploys PARADISE one step further from a laptop by putting it on a device like a phone, tablet or Raspberry Pi.
2021