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Course Description

This studio course guides teams through the full project cycle to design and deliver an AI-enabled solution for a real business or organizational need. Students apply concepts from the three content courses while advancing a single project over eleven weeks.

Weekly studio blocks focus on planning, building, and iterating with instructor and mentor feedback. The capstone includes a two-week final sprint in Weeks 10 and 11 that emphasizes prototyping and delivery, success metrics and monitoring, portfolio polish, and next step career planning. 

Final submissions include a slide deck, a project artifact or demo, and a brief process summary. Presentations may be live or recorded at the instructor’s discretion. When feasible, teams may present work in a final showcase with invited industry reviewers.

Learner Outcomes

  • Scope and validate a user or business problem, defining goals, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Build a concept proposal, prototype, or hybrid deliverable using appropriate tools, prompts, data flows, and workflows.
  • Integrate human-in-the-loop, ethical, legal, security, and operational considerations, and document mitigations.
  • Define and track success metrics; run a limited test or pilot and interpret results to guide iteration.
  • Communicate value, feasibility, limitations, and risks through a stakeholder-ready narrative supported by evidence.
  • Produce a final submission package: slide deck, artifact or demo link, and a two-page process summary capturing key decisions and iterations.
  • Present for instructor evaluation and, when feasible, engage in a brief Q&A with invited industry reviewers; summarize how feedback shaped next steps.
     

Prerequisites

Concurrent enrollment in MGMNT X490A, MGMNT X490B, and MGMNT X490C is required. The Capstone Studio runs across all 11 weeks of the term, integrating and applying concepts from the three content courses. Completion of this full package results in the award of the Professional Certificate in Applied AI and Innovation.

Students who are enrolled in MGMNT X490D but are not enrolled in the other three required courses at least 10 days prior to the start of the quarter will be dropped from the Capstone Studio. Standard administrative drop fees will apply.

Notes

To earn the Professional Certificate in Applied AI and Innovation, students must enroll in all four courses within the same quarter. The capstone is integrated week by week with lectures, labs, and modules, making it essential to take the courses together.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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