LEAD Laboratory for Enterprise Application Development

I am looking for approximately 6-7 Software Enterprise project sponsors for the upcoming year. I ask project sponsors for ideas that are early stage, but have a clear product roadmap. That is, projects that are not too research oriented, but also are not so well-defined that they do not require requirements elicitation skills. The rule of thumb is whether it can be adequately described in a single paragraph. I can help with project scope if you want to email or call.

We invite you to the Fall 2008 Tradeshow Day, an event where graduating graduate students and senior Software Enterprise Capstone project students present their projects. This semester we have several interesting projects, including 5 networking/wireless projects, 2 handheld/cellphone projects, 2 visualization projects, and a half-dozen web-based applications.

The beginning of the Fall semester is less than 3 weeks away, and so Harry Koehnemann and I have begun our ramp-up for this year's Software Enterprise projects. As you are probably familiar with by now, our Software Enterprise is a 4-course (2-year) sequence in which students participate in scalable software projects exercising best practices in software engineering.

I am writing to solicit industry projects for the Software Enterprise. Our sequence supports 1-year projects each academic year. Suitable projects are those at the "vision stage"; the purpose of the Fall semester is for student teams to work as business analysts to elicit, document, manage, and realize requirements. If you have projects that are at the idea stage yet not on your critical path, these would be ideal for the Software Enterprise. Proof-of-concept projects are welcome, and successful projects may be candidates for further maturation in the new ATIC concept Dr.