CS 487/488 Software Engineering Capstone (6 credits). Fall 2007.

Catalog Description: This course emphasizes teamwork in small groups on a substantial project that will be performed for a real customer. Projects are chosen so as to provide interdisciplinary content with project proposals being solicited from the community at large. Projects that involve students as well as customers from other disciplines are encouraged. Lectures will be directed towards the management of software development projects such as those being carried out by the teams. It is the intent of the course to provide a capstone experience that integrates the material contained in the remainder of the CS curriculum through work on a project that applies this material in another discipline. Each team member will contribute to the design, documentation, and testing phases of the project. This course creates an obligation for participation for two consecutive quarters.

Prerequisite by Topic: CS200, CS201, CS202, CS250, CS251, CS300, CS311, CS321, CS322, CS333, and CS350 (completion of required 300-level Computer Science core, and their pre-requisites) or permission of instructor.

Course Goals: The primary purpose of this course is to give students a team experience that comes as close as possible to the environments in which they will find themselves after graduation. The course is intended to integrate the knowledge that students have acquired in their other CS courses.

Instructor: Warren Harrison (warren@cs.pdx.edu)

Time and Location: Nominally, Monday evenings from 6:40-9:20 in FAB 150. Actual meetings after projects are assigned will be arranged on a group-by-group basis.

For Fall 2007, the class will run from September 24, 2007 to March 21, 2008.

Course URL: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~warren/Capstone