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

Practicums

The master’s programs at Carnegie Mellon 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