Capstone Projects Invitation to Industry

UNSW Canberra at ADFA has been fostering a university culture within a defence environment for more than fifty years. Today, we offer a range of undergraduate programs to Defence trainee officers, Defence personnel and civilian students in an environment of high-quality facilities and resources.

Our Bachelor of Computing and Cyber Security (BCCS) is designed to build the attributes and skills for market-ready graduates seeking a career in software and cyber security engineering, industry, innovation, management, operations, and research. Our students are introduced to the latest social and political issues in this dynamic sector and with an understanding of computer science, mathematics, information systems, networks, and computer programming. Apart from technical knowledge, our students are constantly developing their problem-solving ability, critical thinking and communication skills.

In the final year of the program, students will complete a capstone team project to demonstrate their abilities in computing and cybersecurity.

Capstone Project

BCCS students undertake their capstone group project in their 3^rd year.

It allows applying skills and knowledge from other courses in the degree and forges a contribution to the IT discipline by a software engineering project. This complex group-based project seeks to contextualise multiple components of the ICT profession and incorporate Cyber-Security fundamentals.

The capstone project requires students to work in teams with a key stakeholder client to identify the requirements of a project based on high-level aims, evaluate appropriate technology choices and implementation architectures, and develop a solution that meets these needs. Such needs often include considering existing business processes, software, hardware, and the development of integration pathways.

Additionally, students are expected to critically analyse and evaluate their project to understand better how design and technology choices, time-management, group interaction and client communication impact outcomes.

Capstone projects are run in both Semester 1 (IT Project 1 - February to June) and Semester 2 (IT Project 2 - July to November) each year. Each session is 13 study weeks. Students usually work in groups of 3 to 4 students.

Commitment from our Industry clients

Meet with the student group at the beginning of the session for requirements capturing and scoping.

Be available to meet with the student group weekly or fortnightly during a planned study session to provide feedback on their project progress.

Provide feedback to the course convener on students’ performance from a client perspective at various checkpoints during the session (2 interim project reviews and final review).

UNSW Canberra is able to provide standard infrastructure required for the projects. If there are project specific infrastructure projects clients cannot provide to the students, these need to be communicated to the capstone projects coordinators at the time of project proposal submission to assess feasibility.

For more information on Capstone Projects please email Dr Erandi Hene Kankanamge - e.henekankanamge@adfa.edu.au.

Timeline for Projects in 2023

	Session 1 2023	Session 2 2023
Submission of proposals to UNSW Canberra by:	01/12/2022	23/06/2023
Scope discussion and adjustments:	01/12/2022 to 15/12/2022	23/06/2023 to 30/06/2023
Project list published to students:	27/02/2023	03/07/2023
Project Selection:	27/02/2023 to 10/03/2023	17/07/2023-28/07/2023
Notification of projects selection and confirmation with Industry:	10/03/2023	28/07/2023
Expected start date of project:	13/03/2023	31/07/2023
Mid-Session Break:	08/04/2023 to 23/04/2023	26/08/2023- 10/09/2023
Expected end date of project:	23/06/2023	24-30/10/2023

Interested Industry clients with identified projects to submit their projects through the online form here:

Please note that not all the submitted project proposals are selected as a capstone project.

Project Name

Contact name

Contact email

Project aim (brief summary 500 words)

Expected deliverables

Expected skills of students

Desired skills of students (students may not have all of these skills presently))

What is your required infrastructure?

Would you provide the infrastructure?

Yes all

Yes some

None

If "Yes some", provide more information on what can and cannot be provided