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:

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 2024/2025

Programme Schedule for Capstone 2025/2026

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 subsequent project 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 May.

Submit online project form