Running a Software Project Capstone course @LUT
Real industry customers
Challenges of the software industry
Full software project
From customer needs to delivered product
Team management
Management of both internal and external communication and work
About the course
Main emphasis of the course: Implementation of a sustainable software project with a real customer
Theme for the SE4GD students is Sustainable software.
SE4GD project has several industry partners that will provide topics for the students. Students will see the topics, discuss and team up before contacting the customers. Companies will be your customers defining the product you start implementing. Each team member will have a well defined role in the work. During the project each team will report their progress weekly and develop a plan for the next week. The project is closed with a written report, a presentation of the project results, and a project post mortem analysis.
Projects in Spring 2022
In spring 2022 the students of SE4GD worked with Solita, Vincit and Innotect.
DCE – Solution for distributed circular economy
DCE is a project with Solita – a Northern European tech company. This project developed a system that provides a distributed platform to manage waste materials. This waste material can be anything such as the leftovers, the used materials. This platform enables businesses to manage the extra, waste, and used materials in an efficient manner that leads to less pollution, less overhead, and a sustainable future.
DCE is an ecosystem not only for companies and individuals who want to sell/buy their goods, but also for service companies (such as logistics, maintenance, extractors, etc.) to accompany companies and individuals within their trades.
aCHECK – Color contrast evaluator
aCHECK is a web-based tool that can check color contrast of a website or any graphic by uploading the screenshot, and evaluate whether its contrast meets the WCAG2.1 measurement or not.
aCHECK was done for VINCIT – a technology company that builds digital services and solutions for their customer. VINCIT is known in Finland as one of the trailblazers in sustainable software development.
AccessIT – Automated Accessibility Audit Tool
AccessIT is an automated accessibility audit tool that is meant for software engineers and UI/UX designers for evaluating how well a website follows accessibility standards. This tool is a cloud based solution and published in GitHub under MIT license.
This work has been done together with VINCIT – a tech company that considers all users equally.
Supersense eco – solution for optimizing energy production
Supersense eco is an energy optimization tool that combines Nordpool energy prices with the weather forecasting and thus provising information when energy needs to be produced.
Supersense eco has been done in close collaboration with Innotect – a company that provides digital services for sustainable tomorrow.
