See benefits of sponsoring a Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science and Engineering industry capstone program project:
- Opportunity to assess student talent and recruit top graduates.
- Reduces training time for new hires and increases understanding of company culture, accelerating project readiness and improving new-hire retention.
- Establish relationships with faculty members and subject matter experts in forward-looking technology.
- Increase awareness of the highly technical nature of company projects and technical expertise of their engineers, which can foster future collaborations.
- Build brand recognition.
- Awareness of the types of projects that new graduates can look forward to
- Understand advantages and competitiveness of a job offer versus those from more recognizable companies, contributing to hiring targets.
- Strategies include:
- Recognition as a project sponsor in the departmental website available to the student body. This includes the project description and a video of a live project demonstration, with the company logo prominently displayed.
- Strategies include:
- Opportunity to be invited to talk about the project in a faculty’s capstone class, with unlimited participation of recruitment staff.
- Opportunity to give back to the students and the department.
- Turn over of results include, but are not limited to:
- Final prototype or computing-based solution consisting of software and/or hardware as applicable;
- Final report and live project demonstration; and
- High quality pictures and video of the working system, for use in communicating the project to the student body at all levels: faculty, sponsor and other external stakeholders.