Capstone: A University-Industry Partnership

The Capstone project is a University-Industry partnership whereby students work in cross-functional teams to solve real-world challenges. Working in teams of 5 to 7 students, these final-year undergraduate students will learn to apply the principles, concepts, techniques that they have learnt to investigate your technical and business challenges.

Nature of a Capstone Project

A Capstone project is an industry-based project which gives senior year undergraduate students the opportunity to practically apply the knowledge, principles, concepts and techniques they have learned to solve multi-disciplinary challenges. It aims to give students a holistic, integrative design experience that requires an extensive range of technological design skills and knowledge such as:

Identifying real world needs	Transforming needs into technical specifications or design strategies
Applying modelling techniques and evaluating design alternatives	Using teamwork to resolve the challenges in designing and validating a tangible solution

Benefits for Industry Partners

Capstone Partners can look forward to:

Gaining access to design and technology oriented students to investigate your technical and business challenges
Owning intellectual property generated during the Capstone project
Gaining access to a wide range of faculty technical expertise
Having consistent exposure to gauge the abilities of students over the two-term (8-month) project duration to recruit the right talent with the right attitude and understanding of your business environment

Contributions from Industry Partners

Capstone Partners should provide:

Projects that involve students from at least 2 different pillars
Project should have enough scope for 5 to 7 students per team
Projects that last 2 terms (from January to August)
Projects that fulfill university learning objectives
Mentors who will work closely with students and faculty instructors
The cost of participation is S$6,000 per team to cover design, prototype and project materials

How to Participate

Submission for Capstone 2022 has closed. Please email capstone@sutd.edu.sg for enquiries on new submissions and the submission schedule for Capstone 2023.

Programme Schedule for Capstone 2022

January 2022	Start of Capstone
August 2022	End of Capstone

Download Capstone 2022 Programme Brochure

Note: The Capstone programme brochure will be replaced by August 2022. For Capstone 2023 programme brochure, please refer to the Capstone 2023 tab.

Programme Schedule for Capstone 2023

September 2022 to April 2023	Sourcing & Scoping of Capstone projects
June 2023	Project Selection and Results of Selection by Students
September 2023	Start of Capstone
April 2024	End of Capstone

Be a Capstone Partner:

Clear Agreement clauses with Capstone office (signing will be done later). Submit the proposed Capstone project(s) using the Online Project Form*.
The Project Form brief will help to facilitate subsequent project scoping discussions with SUTD to fine-tune the proposals.
When the project scoping is completed, the approved project will be accepted as a Capstone project for student selection from June.
Signing the standard Capstone agreement letter. (Note: All Intellectual Properties generated during the Capstone project belong to the Capstone Partner. There are also non-disclosure clauses to safeguard confidential information.)
Completing project scoping discussions and signing of Capstone agreement letter latest by mid May.

*Kindly note the window for project proposal submission: September 2022 to April 2023. SUTD may stop accepting proposed Capstone projects earlier if sufficient projects have been received for the year.