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A Semi-Automatic Approach For Project Assignment In A Capstone Course, Mark Chang, Allen Downey
A Semi-Automatic Approach For Project Assignment In A Capstone Course, Mark Chang, Allen Downey
Mark L. Chang
This paper presents a semi-automatic approach to assigning students to project teams for a year-long, industry-sponsored senior capstone course. Successful assignment requires knowl- edge of at least individual project requirements, student skills, student personalities, and student project preferences. This mix of hard skills, soft skills, and interpersonal impres- sions requires human involvement to produce a high-quality assignment. The importance of faculty input often requires that the assignment process be labor- and time-intensive.
Our approach attempts to reduce the time required to perform this assignment by selectively automating parts of the task flow. An automated search uses a randomized greedy algorithm …