Practicums at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley-Silicon Valley Campus - Carnegie Mellon University

Practicums

The master’s programs at Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley integrate the practicum course as part of the graduate curriculum. Practicums offer an educational opportunity for students to work for corporate clients doing real-time work, under the guidance of faculty.

The practicum is a capstone course for our students.  It involves managing the customer relationship, problem analysis, negotiating requirements and scope, in addition to solution development. It integrates all of a student's previous coursework.

How Sponsorship Works

If your company is interested in becoming a practicum sponsor and engaging our students in the practicum experience, we ask that you identify a problem with an engineering or business solution, where members of your organization can function as the “client” for a student team.

Start-up companies may find the practicum to be a particularly useful and unique method for solving their business and software problems in a timely manner by utilizing student resources to augment the start-up staff.

Learn more about becoming a practicum sponsor or contact our practicum advisors:

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"Our team practicum with Kalido was a great encapsulation of the efforts from prior courses. Most important, the application of learned frameworks and formulas yielded results real-world multi-national executives utilized in their short and long term strategy."

- Brian Hurley, MS SM '07, External Affairs Director, National Industries for the Blind