The School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology (DMIT) has a final year capstone design-implement course that involves teams of students working on industry-based problems. The aim of the course is to prepare students for the transition to the workforce by allowing them to experience real world business information technology projects. The capstone project provides students with the opportunity to integrate the technical knowledge and skills they have acquired in their program of study to develop industry sponsored IT applications. For the project, students are required to work in teams to analyse the system requirements of a business, describe a proposed system and business model, design the system specification and develop the system. The paper will describe how the project module is implemented to promote the integration of knowledge and skills learnt in the core modules and the application of CDIO skills in design-implement e-Business projects.
The paper will report on a survey conducted on the students’ perception of their ability to integrate the knowledge and skills learnt in their core modules and apply them to the project, and their perception of the personal, interpersonal and professional skills required for completing the capstone project successfully. The paper will discuss how these skills can be more effectively developed.
This paper will discuss the challenges the students’ faced interacting and working with Clients as well as personal and interpersonal skills needed to overcome these challenges.