Capstone programme
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
- 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
- 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
How to participate
Programme schedule for Capstone 2025/2026
| September 2025 | Start of Capstone |
| April 2026 | End of Capstone |
Programme schedule for Capstone 2026/2027
| July 2025 to March 2026 | Sourcing and scoping of Capstone projects |
| April 2026 to May 2026 | Final project discussion |
| June 2026 | Project selection and results of selection by students |
| September 2026 | Start of Capstone |
| April 2027 | 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 or email to capstone@sutd.edu.sg.
- The Project Form brief will help to facilitate project discussions with SUTD to fine-tune the proposals.
- When the project discussion is completed, the agreement is signed and entered into the portal from May/June for students to select.
- Results of allocation will be published to companies by 1st week of July.