SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
SEN4991	Capstone Project I	Fall	1	0	1	1

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Must Course
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	E-Learning
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖZGE YÜCEL KASAP
Course Objectives:	"The students are expected to gain the following skills and knowledge: -how to solve an engineering problem through interdisciplinary collaboration, -how to synthesize knowledge in order to solve an engineering problem, -how to plan and manage an interdisciplinary engineering project, -report writing, -presentation skills."

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) will have gained a knowledge of project management, team management, conflict resolution
2) will have gained a knowledge of engineering design, usability, and integration
3) will have gained a knowledge of engineering constraints
4) will have gained a knowledge of measurement and verification of a product
5) will have gained a knowledge of innovation, entrepreneurship, patent and useful model protection
6) will have Identified an engineering problem and divide it into smaller sub problems to apply previous knowledge to solve each sub problem.
7) will have produced alternative solutions to the problem and analyze different solutions in terms of cost, time, work, maintenance, efficiency etc.
8) will have prepared a project proposal that includes a complete design and plan of execution taking into consideration engineering constraints.
9) will have gained a knowledge of engineering standards and apply them in a project design.
10) will have gained research, report writing and presentation skills.

Course Content

In this course, lectures are given on various topics relevant to conducting engineering projects. The first six lectures cover topics that are general to the faculty and are examined with a common mid-term exam. These topics are also expected to be expressed by the students in reports and presentations. Also in this course, students will be directed to form interdisciplinary teams and select a project among the projects offered by the faculty. The final report (project proposal) will be focused on this chosen project and will be a single document prepared by the interdisciplinary team; this project proposal will detail the work that will be carried out in the following semester in the course 4992.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to capstone courses I & II
2)	Team and project management	Start forming teams
3)	Activity: Project selection	Choose your capstone project
4)	Engineering design	Begin to organize the team and make plans for the semester. Attend Team and adviser meetings.
5)	Engineering constraints	Design and document. Attend Team and adviser meetings.
6)	Measurement and verification	Design and document. Attend Team and adviser meetings.
7)	Innovation and entrepreneurship	Design and document. Attend Team and adviser meetings.
8)		Design and document. Attend Team and adviser meetings.
9)		Online midterm exam Attend Team and adviser meetings. Prepare the status report.
10)		Design and document. Attend Team meetings. Give a status report in the meeting with your adviser.
11)		Design and document. Attend Team and adviser meetings.
12)		Design and document. Attend Team and adviser meetings. Submission of the draft project proposal.
13)		Complete the documentation. Submission of the final project proposal. Prepare for the presentation.
14)		Presentation of the project proposal.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Engineering by Design, 2nd Edition, Gerard Voland, Prentice Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0131409194
References:	https://capstone.eng.bau.edu.tr/

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	1	14
Study Hours Out of Class	12	1	12
Presentations / Seminar	1	1	1
Midterms	1	1	1
Paper Submission	2	2	4
Total Workload			32

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.	5
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.	5
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.	4
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.	4
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.	5
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.	4
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.	5
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.	5
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.	4
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.	4
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.	5
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.	5
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.	4