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Integrating Innovation Activities in a Master Level Capstone Project Course

Jerker Björkqvist, Luigia Petre, Karl Rönnholm, Dragos Truscan, Integrating Innovation Activities in a Master Level Capstone Project Course. In: Jerker Björkqvist, Mikko-Jussi Laakso, Janne Roslöf, Raija Tuohi, Seppo Virtanen (Eds.), International Conference on Engineering Education, Research Reports 38, 1065–1072, Turku University of Applied Sciences, 2012.

Abstract:

The computer engineering and computer science curricula at Åbo Akademi University have had for more than 10 years a capstone course, called Project Course, where student teams implement larger software or combine software/hardware systems. A major change in the education environment was in year 2006, when information systems students, a business curriculum, was integrated in the department. At that point, activities for integrating innovation were added to the course development. The aim of the innovation activities is to try to make the students aware of their possibilities, as well as to encourage them to form start-ups based on either ideas in the Project Course or to further develop their ideas. To this point, year 2012, at least two companies have been formed based on the technical work done during the Project Course. In parallel, a student entrepreneurship organization has been formed in the university campus area, which today is a major, student based, co-operator to the Project Course. This paper brings forward the development of the Project Course and the supporting activities around it. We explain the cooperative work and how it affects the students in the project work during the course.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpBjPeRxTr12a,
  title = {Integrating Innovation Activities in a Master Level Capstone Project Course},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Engineering Education},
  author = {Björkqvist, Jerker and Petre, Luigia and Rönnholm, Karl and Truscan, Dragos},
  volume = {38},
  series = {Research Reports},
  editor = {Björkqvist, Jerker and Laakso, Mikko-Jussi and Roslöf, Janne and Tuohi, Raija and Virtanen, Seppo},
  publisher = {Turku University of Applied Sciences},
  pages = {1065–1072},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Entrepreneurship, course curriculum, IT education, student projects},
}

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