This document explains more about Applied Projects and the process for submitting the optional request . It is a yearlong process with three phases. Co-ordinator and mentors establish enterprise sponsorship and other project activities. Mentors are instructors in the course Working with Business and Industry, a mandatory general education course. Student teams form and select a project.
Mentors guide student teams with planning activities.
The sponsor is one who provides the setting for a real-world problem to form the basis of the project. Faculty mentors may add additional activities depending on the expected learning to be achieved. Suitable projects are those to design, test, and evaluate a mock up of a proposed or alternative system that enterprise is planning to commission. Primarily it must be a learning experience. College staff may have similar needs.