Current Course Catalog Description
Integrated Product Development (IPD) Capstone Course I. Industry-based business information systems design project. Information systems design methodology, user needs analysis, project feasibility analysis of design alternatives, and integrated product development methodology. Formal oral and written presentations to clients. Prerequisite: CSE 241, CSB 311 (can be taken concurrently)
Integrated Product Development (IPD) Capstone Course II. This course extends the industry-based project initiated in CSB 312 into its implementation phase. Detailed design, in-house system construction and delivery, commercial software options, and systems maintenance and support. The practical components of the course are supplemented by several classroom-based modules dealing with topics that lie at the boundary of computer science and business. Formal oral and written presentation to clients. Prerequisite: CSB 312
Textbook
COURSE OUTCOMES
Students will have:
- Key Project Management Principles with an emphasis on team structure, team dynamics, organizational processes, organizational structure and issue.
- Essentials of Project Management with a focus on the key knowledge areas, processes and deliverables.
- Customer Relationships Management approaches and techniques.
- How to make Business Presentations
- Understanding the processes involved in designing, developing and implementing Business Information Systems in a corporate environment
Relationship between course outcomes and Student Outcomes where CSB 312 substantially support the Student Outcome #1 and #3
SO 1: Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions.
SO 3: Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.
Major Topics Covered in the Course
- Team work
- Business communications
- Project execution
- Data analysis
- Process Modeling
- Corporate IT goverance
- Customer relationship management
- Project integration management
- Project scope management
- Project time management
- Project quality management
- Project human resource management
- Project communication management
- Project risk management
- Project procurement management
Assessment Plan for the Course
Lehigh's CSB program seeks industry sponsorship of undergraduates and graduate projects that have the following characteristics:
Require a multidisciplinary student team from engineering, business and computer technology
Have specific deliverable, such as a working prototype, software or business plan
Have a participating external (to the University) sponsor (~4hrs/wk)
Be tractable (Capstone courses:roughly 1,000 hours of work collectively by the team over 2 semesters)
Be amenable to the methods and best practices in creativity, innovation and new software/hardware development
Coursework culminates in a yearlong Capstone Projects phase in which students work in teams for corporate partners throughout the design, development and marketing stages of software/hardware development. Students will develop an entirely new software/hardware component or redesign existing software/hardware components. Students experience firsthand the entrepreneurial experience of successful product design and commercialization.