On Design Day, the computer science capstone teams compete for four prestigious awards.
- Auto-Owners Exposition Award
- MSUFCU Praxis Award
- TechSmith Screencast Award
- Urban Science Sigma Award
Throughout the morning, each team presents their project to a panel of judges in Engineering Building, Room 3405.
Visitors are welcome to attend.
Auto-Owners Exposition Award
CSE 498 capstone teams present their projects on Design Day in a variety of ways. Teams create and set up an exhibit where they demonstrate their projects and answer questions from Design Day attendees, which include corporate clients, families, friends, faculty, and students, along with hundreds of local middle and high school students. In addition, as part of the award competition, teams give a formal presentation to a panel of corporate judges.
The CSE capstone team with the best overall Design Day performance is honored with the Auto-Owners Exposition Award, which is sponsored by Auto-Owners Insurance of Lansing, Michigan.
Team TechSmith
Smart Automatic Video Creation
Jiaqi Zuo, Patrick Renner, Scott James, Mingzhu Wei, James Davison
Presented by Scott Lake and Tony Dean
MSUFCU Praxis Award
One of the hallmarks of CSE 498 capstone projects is that of praxis, the process of putting theoretical knowledge into practice. Teams apply a wide variety of information technologies to produce solutions to complex problems in areas such as business, engineering, computing, and science.
One of the hallmarks of CSE 498 capstone projects is that of praxis, the process of putting theoretical knowledge into practice. Teams apply a wide variety of information technologies to produce solutions to complex problems in areas such as business, engineering, computing, and science.
Team Mozilla
Splitting the Atom. Again.
Alex Vamvounis, Teja Bayya, Carson Greene, Tyler Staats, James Jahns
Presented by Ben Maxim
TechSmith Screencast Award
Each CSE 498 capstone team produces a video that describes and demonstrates their software product. Starting with a storyboard and a script, teams use Camtasia Studio to synthesize screen recordings, video, audio and other multimedia to produce their project videos.
And the TechSmith Screencast Award goes to…the CSE capstone team with the best project video. The award is sponsored by the creators of Camtasia Studio, TechSmith of Okemos, Michigan.
Team Meijer
Creating Picking and Fulfillment Efficiency
Mitchell, Setsma, Dylan Iseler, Yingbao Wang, Asian Tashtanov, Sarah Mostofizadeh
Presented by Wendy Hamilton and David Norris
Urban Science Sigma Award
The CSE 498 experience represents the capstone of the educational career of each computer science major. An intense semester of teamwork produces impressive deliverables that include a formal project plan, formal presentations, software, documentation, user manuals, a video, and Design Day participation. The resulting sum, the Capstone Experience, is much greater than the parts.
The capstone team that delivers the best overall capstone experience is recognized with the Urban Science Sigma Award, which is sponsored by Urban Science of Detroit, Michigan.
Team Evolutio
ERP Air Force: Drone Elephant Recognition and Tracking
Rei Doko, Jeremy Arsenault, Tyler Lawson, Nic Wiggins, Kunyu Chen
Presented by Mike DeRise and Bill Bye
Design Day Panel of Judges
- Bob Dyksen – Evolutio, St. Louis, Missouri
- E.J. Dyksen – Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
- Rich Enbody – Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
- Dave Giordano – Technology Services Group, Chicago, Illinois
- Adam Haas – Ford Motor Company, Gurgon, India & Dearborn, Michigan
- Elizabeth Klee – Urban Science, Detroit, Michigan
- Terry Ledbetter – Meijer, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- John Marx – Amazon, Detroit, Michigan
- Ben Maxim – MSU Federal Credit Union, East Lansing, Michigan
- Rob McCurdy – Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
- David Norris – TechSmith, Okemos, Michigan
- Matt Olmsted – Dow Chemical Company, Saginaw, Michigan
- Mike Ply – Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Laura Vetter – Evolutio, St. Louis, Missouri
- Justin Walker – Surge Solutions, Warrenton, Virginia
- Frank Weith – Volkswagen, Detroit, Michigan
- Laura Williams – Herman Miller, Grand Rapids, Michigan