• A Revised Proposal from Spring term – including the updated deliverables, team members’ role, and up-to-date deliverables plus a revised (Gantt-Chart) In most cases, a recycled version of the final report from MSE 410, if you feel no changes are needed. 10%
• User Manual or Technical Manual 25%
• Demo Poster Presentation 30%
• Final Comprehensive Report 30%
• Final Comprehensive Report 5%

NOTES:

Deliverables / Assignments		Week / Date Due
A Revised Proposal from Spring term – including the updated deliverables, team members’ role, and up-to-date deliverables plus a revised (Gantt-Chart) In most cases, a recycled version of the final report from MSE 410, if you feel no changes are needed.		May 21 (Word file only)
User Manual or Technical Manual		June 25 (Word file only)
Demo Poster Presentation		TBA
Final Comprehensive Report		August 13(Word file only)
Final Comprehensive Report		August 13 (at MSE office no later than 12:00 noon)

REQUIREMENTS:

Course Operation

Lectures

There will be one guest lecture and three scheduled lectures (TBA). There are no other scheduled lectures for the course. Students should use the lecture time to conduct group meetings and work on their projects.  

Meetings

Students should make every effort to meet with their project technical supervisor once per week during the semester. Each group will meet with the instructor, Dr. Golnaraghi, a minimum of twice during the term. Your TA will arrange individual group meetings.

Financial Support

Each team is provided with a $50 budget for their project. You may access these funds by submitting receipts to the department at the front desk of the MSE office. Groups that are participating in the entrepreneurship program may be eligible for additional funding through the Tech-E program (Contact Dr. Amr Marzouk).  You must apply separately for that funding.  Independent projects may benefit from some financing. Contact instructor. Industry sponsored projects should have supplies funded by the company. Be sure you have an agreement in place and understand the rules for reimbursement before making any project related purchases. Same for faculty sponsored projects.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to conduct themselves professionally at all times including interactions with professors, teaching assistants, and fellow students. Students are responsible for their performance in the course and should approach the professor and teaching assistants for help if they are having trouble with the material. Refer to the SFU Calendar for course withdrawal, academic dishonesty, and for other related regulations.

Student Accommodations

Students who require accommodations should inform the instructor at the beginning of the course. The instructor and teaching assistants will do their best to support your accommodations. If you need more information about student accommodations, please visit Centre for Students with Disabilities website http://students.sfu.ca/disabilityaccess.html.

Intellectual Property Statement

In keeping with the entrepreneurial spirit of the Capstone curriculum, students are encouraged to pursue projects having commercialization potential and are discouraged from entering non-competition and non-disclosure agreements with participating companies without consultation with the instructors. Project results are made publicly available through student presentations and final documentation. Intellectual property ownership will be governed by the University’s Intellectual Property Policy, R 30.03, including, but not limited to situations where:

1.  a participating company provides a general concept for the Capstone group to use as a starting point or guidance in the project;
2. a participating company offers a particular project that will incorporate the business’s proprietary information;
3. a participating company provides funding to support the Capstone group’s project;
4. pre-existing intellectual property of either the student or faculty advisor is going to be the subject of the student’s project.

Capstone group members shall be considered co-creators and, as per the University’s Intellectual Property Policy, R 30.03, 6.5, if Commercialization is anticipated and there is more than one Creator, a written agreement among the Creators should be concluded as early as possible and before negotiations for Commercialization are commenced with third parties.

We have a University IP agreement for Industrial projects, in case the company you are working with demands one.