2020 Capstone Projects

To wrap up their undergraduate experience at CU Boulder, computer science students participate in a year-long senior capstone project that gives them a chance to put their skills into practice on real-world projects, as well as to make important professional connections. Software design projects are sponsored by companies, academic units and individuals who volunteer their time to work closely with students throughout the year. 

This year, 22 teams completed their software design projects under challenging circumstances that required a lot of flexibility and creativity. Thank you to all of the students and project sponsors who persevered -- congratulations on a job well done!  

Because the Engineering Projects Expo couldn't be held as scheduled, we asked each team to put together a video to introduce their team, demo the final product and share some personal testimonials. We encourage visitors to watch the videos and leave comments for the teams using the form link below. You may also leave comments for Entrepreneurial Capstone projects.

  Leave a Comment for a Team

Startup Capstone

Our Entrepreneurial Capstone option gives students the chance to launch their own tech companies with the guidance of faculty and industry mentors. The goal of the course is to provide students with the tools to be successful technical co-founders of their own startups. 

This year, 46 students launched companies during the year-long course. Check out their projects on the CU Startup Capstone website! 

  Check Out the Startups

[video:https://youtu.be/H_qqFTtTQls]

Ostinato, for Arpeggio Biosciences

  • Product: An online platform to map the human genome regulatory network
  • Team Members: Nicholas Curie, Joel Davidson, Kaelan Patel, Nikhil Rajaram, Scott Weygandt, Michael Yoshimura and Jordan Smart

[video:https://youtu.be/-u6txa_TAyA]

Team Magenta, for Boba Touch

  • Product: Boba tea shop website and ordering app
  • Team Members: Matthew Donovan, Danny Nguyen, Long Nguyen, Gabe Raymondi, Sabrina Touch, Vincent Viano, Edwin Chiang, Curry Buscher and Johnson Ngo

[video:https://youtu.be/-vL4BwwglO0]

CU Engineering Advancement

  • Product: Software to connect college fundraising team with potential donors
  • Team Members: Mohamed Al-Rasbi, Sam Fitzsimmons, Andrew Gelfman, Marissa Montano, Sean Vanderbach and Parker Eischen

[video:https://youtu.be/B0IJd52QXxU]

CU Boulder Blockchain Alliance

  • Product: Blockchain smart certificate
  • Team Members: XuSong Ho, Angus MacDonald, Thomas Martinez, Orgil Sugar, Kevin Yang, Kylee Bennett and John Osborne

[video:https://youtu.be/cUSU4BjfiZk]

Eden Crashers, for CU Boulder EBIO

  • Product: Interactive map for the Apple Tree Project
  • Team Members: Erika Bailon, Cassidy Carpenter, Sky Howerter, Jason Lubrano, Dennis Nguyen, Chakrya Ros, Javier Ramirez and Thomas Alder

[video:https://youtu.be/fHzY5LWwaUM]

CU Boulder Department of Psychology 

  • Product: An iPhone app to help reduce racial bias
  • Team Members: Kakam Chen, Connor Dowd, Garrison Lee, Ann Marie Mahon, Han Yin, Keyu Wu and Alexander Sandridge

[video:https://youtu.be/LuUxE1NBAM4]

CU Boulder Leeds School of Business

  • Product: Digitizing a half-century of financial panel-level data
  • Team Members: Remy Dahlke, Kevin Eastman, Joshua Khoo, Zijun Liu, Jie Wang, Zuodong Wang, Qinglu Sun and William Shanks

[video:https://youtu.be/IHXLQob74vE]

Curve 10

  • Product: Turn-based sports game for Slack
  • Team Members: Marissa Bueno, Becky McConnell, Omar Mohammed, Jorge Moreno, Lucas Sward, Jacob Johnson and Braden Holmes

[video:https://youtu.be/464oVogkmfo]

Festo License Management

  • Product: Decentralized software license management
  • Team Members: Ian Brobin, Stefan Codrescu, Matthew Dinh, Vasily Lyapunov, Sam Mauck, Jonathan Meade and Eric Kim

[video:https://youtu.be/wPqRrKhLBBY]

Festo Maintenance Log Management

  • Product: Audit proofing of machine maintenance logs via blockchain
  • Team Members: Josiah Graham, Courtney Johnson, Kylie Kim, Paul Lucero, Christopher Selby, Cassandra Spath and Drew Turner

[video:https://youtu.be/-bhQFeuPH3U]

Aether, for NASA / JPL

  • Product: Software to visualize multiple celestial body trajectories in 3D
  • Team Members: Zhenqi Li, Kyle Schultz, Eli Jacobshagen, Joshua Barber, Alex Fisher, Matthew Menten, Xinyu Cao and Yifeng Huang

[video:https://youtu.be/EY19o3ncAy8]

The Green Team, for NCAR

  • Product: Mobile website to enable citizen science for ozone bioindicator gardens
  • Team Members: Hunter Belcher, Percy Bell, Tanya Leung, Tanner Slemmer, Kara Wallace, Michael Whitlock and Abbigail Nicholson

[video:https://youtu.be/nB5N20WaNug]

Team PyKE, for NOAA / NCEI 

  • Product: Improving a Python acoustic data processing package
  • Team Members: Benjamin Zaeske, Austin Argueso-Nott, Tyler Benson, Richard Dryja, Michael Gigiolio, Benjamin Goldstein, Mitchell Massey and Aaron Steiner

[video:https://youtu.be/CqJKzSUMUkA]

Northrup Grumman 

  • Product: Boosting vehicle classification accuracy for mission systems
  • Team Members: Zhengwu Yuan, Valliappan Chidambaram, Justin Davis, Paris Dinh, Amari Hoogland, Sofia Lange, Kamen Shah and Lei Teng

[video:https://youtu.be/Y_TpnMILc-8]

StrideTech 

  • Product: Software for an IoT device that measures users' walking health
  • Team Members: David Doan, Lu Liu, Ryan Loi, Jonathan Oulton, Nicholas Palmer, John Stibbards, Derek Tran and Omer Eldar

[video:https://youtu.be/8eyzYkBUX34]

TerumoBCT

  • Product: Exploring the application of machine learning to a real-world medical device
  • Team Members: Keaton Hoeger, Jonathan Bayer, EunSeo Kim, Ruitong Sun, Yanchao Li, Xinyang Yuan, Adam Ten Hoeve and Benjamin Miller
     

[video:https://youtu.be/xUMjBw2o1TQ]

tkMomentum

  • Product: Mobile app to support employment of disabled people
  • Team Members: Trevor Buck, Stacy Hayes, Zander Louie, Mikayla Pickett, Guyatri Gude and Elizabeth Qiu

[video:https://youtu.be/IN67fX8zmYg]

DOMAD, for Traveller Donations Make a Difference

  • Product: Online tool to inform international travelers about local needs
  • Team Members: Natnael Abraha, Duaa Alahmed, Shelby Keupp, Yuxuan Luo, Jocelyn Mace, Tanner O'Rourke, Christoph Uhl and Thomas Young

[video:https://youtu.be/zBKY_llZXMQ]

Trimble

  • Product: Web app to integrate with the Trimble Cloud Processing Framework
  • Team Members: Stefano Delpiccolo, Dhwani Khatter, Kyle Rosenberg and Miguel Vazquez

[video:https://youtu.be/5W19sRed2s8]

VRBO

  • Product: Fast, secure & highly available white-label site using InterPlanetary File System
  • Team Members: Vamshi Arugonda, Luke Bakken, Matthew Coker, Jason Cummings, Samunnat Lamichhane and Alison Ostlund

[video:https://youtu.be/KEhrevZGMFo]

Webroot

  • Product: Cyberthreat insight discovery and visualization tool
  • Team Members: Kamiar Coffey, Alex Markley, Warren Payne, Brian Satchell, Vladimir Zhdanov, Connor Guerin and Alex Burnley