Project Sponsorship
Capstone projects are sponsored by corporate clients that include local, regional, and national companies ranging in size from small to very large.
"Auto-Owners Insurance is proud to be a capstone project sponsor. Our strategic partnership has enabled us to identify and recruit outstanding MSU graduates.”
• Tony Dean
Sr. Vice President
Information Technology Infrastructure
Auto-Owners Insurance
Prior to each semester, project proposals are solicited from potential sponsors by the course professor, Dr. Wayne Dyksen. After appropriate vetting and refinement, the winning proposals are selected.
The total number of sponsorships is limited by student enrollment, which currently supports about thirty projects.
Project sponsorship is $5,000.
Benefits of Sponsorship
The benefits of capstone project sponsorship include
- a guaranteed slot for a capstone project,
- significant visibility with our graduating seniors,
- assistance with recruiting students,
- opportunities to present at our all-hands meetings,
- access to the Capstone Lab for recruiting and interviewing students,
- assistance with organizing and publicizing on-campus corporate informational sessions,
- special acknowledgement in the The Capstone Experience booklet,
- a full project page in the The Capstone Experience booklet,
- special acknowledgement in the Design Day booklet,
- a full project page in the Design Day booklet, and
- broad corporate publicity on Design Day.
Design Day
At the end of each semester, the College of Engineering sponsors Design Day, at which student teams from throughout the college showcase their capstone design projects in the Engineering Building to the general public. Attendees include corporate clients, families, faculty and students, along with hundreds of local junior high and high school students.
Computer science capstone teams present to a panel of corporate judges, competing for prestigious Design Day awards.
Capstone Project Sponsors
Capstone project sponsors include local, regional, and national companies ranging in size from small to very large. For a complete list of sponsors and projects visit the Archives Projects by Sponsor page.
- Ally
- Amazon
- Anthropocene Institute
- Auto-Owners Insurance
- Bosch
- Delta Dental
- Dow
- Evolutio
- Ford
- General Motors
- Herman Miller
- Kellogg’s
- Kohl’s
- Lockheed Martin
- Malleable Minds
- MaxCogito
- Meijer
- Microsoft
- Mozilla
- MSU Federal Credit Union
- Rocket Companies
- Roosevelt Innovations
- TechSmith
- Union Pacific
- United Airlines
- Urban Science
- Vectorform
- Whirlpool
- Volkswagen
The Capstone Experience Brochure
Download and print the tri-fold brochure The Capstone Experience.
Contact Information
For more information on sponsoring a capstone project, contact Dr. Wayne Dyksen.
