Industry Partnerships

The Senior Design Capstone projects at UC Santa Cruz offer a select group of students a unique opportunity to work on real-world engineering challenges as the culmination of their undergraduate education. Over the course of the academic year, students collaborate closely with teammates and engage regularly with their project sponsors—receiving feedback on their solutions and guidance throughout the development process. By working alongside mentors at corporate partner companies, students gain valuable skills, solve complex problems, and begin to understand what it means to be a professional engineer.

Offered every year, the HCI Master’s Industry-Sponsored Capstone Project is where student teams of three or four work with one of our corporate or community partners to bring the culmination of their HCI M.S. experience—and the materials learned across all courses within their degree—to a real-world partner-defined UX product, service, experience design, or research challenge.