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cosinity to sponsor an ASU CAPSTONE project

cosinity is sponsoring an Arizona State University Entrepreneurial CAPSTONE project.

From ASU:

Friends of ASU Poly and the Software Enterprise,

The beginning of the Fall semester is 2 weeks away, so we are ramping up efforts to identify Software Enterprise projects for the 2008-09 academic year. I am writing to solicit interest in sponsoring a project this year. Projects go through a 1-year cycle, with the Fall semester focusing on requirements and prototyping, and the Spring semester focusing on building and delivering production-quality software.

For those unfamiliar, the Enterprise is a 2-year upper-division software engineering capstone sequence, where juniors and seniors partner to execute a software project, with an emphasis on deliverable quality.

This year we are excited to announce we are receiving support from a Kaufmann Foundation to sponsor projects with an Entrepreneurial focus; to this end we are partnering with the Morrison School at ASU Poly to include business students who will take emerging technologies and perform market analysis around the projects. Therefore we are very interested in projects that have commercial potential inside or outside your organizations, and will be able to dedicate special resources to these projects. However, all types of software projects are welcome!

We are also excited to announce that we have moved into new buildings at the Poly campus, and our building (Peralta) includes space for the Software Enterprise! This gives these projects a home and provides an opportunity for us to promote your participation with ASU students! We have submitted an NSF proposal to outfit this space for project teams, please let us know if your organization has an interest in sponsoring this space as well. Finally we mention that the Enterprise has been published in the past year in the International Journal of Engineering Education, the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), and an upcoming book “Software Engineering: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches” (http://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Effective-Approaches-Practices/dp/1605661023).

cosinity will be – working with ASU Poly and the Morrison School students – investigating an entirely new set of services leveraging our communications applications platform. We are exited about this opportunity to work with ASU to enhance the quality of the graduates produced and at the same time deliver high quality services to our customers.

Life is what happens while you are busy making plans…

Never a truer thing was said.

This week is turning out to be a bit of an adventure. I’ve was told Monday I needed a root canal. In an effort to “just get it over with” I scheduled my appointment for Tuesday morning.

The good news is my root canal is done and – while I do not feel 100% – I certainly am not laid low. The bad news is I’m losing 2-3 days on page2call.

Follow the jump to see current state screen shots…

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