Fall 2022 Industry Capstone Program

Program Overview
Program Title Fall 2022 Industry Capstone Program
Organization Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Business Industry Capstone Program
Student Application Link https://stevens.capsource.app/program/fall-2022-industry-capstone-program/rfp
# of Students Enrolled
50
# of Projects Running
12 Project/s Added (of 5 Projects Expected)

Program Timeline

Project Duration

Start Date: 09/01/22      End Date: 12/09/22

3 months

Collaboration Overview
About Students

Our Industry Capstone Program is designed to enhance your education through a collaborative consulting engagement. You'll work as part of a consulting team, with faculty support, to analyze real problems and recommend appropriate actions to the sponsor organizations. The program is an integral part of the curriculum of all graduate business programs. Upon completion, youíll have a real project and real experience to share with recruiters and hiring managers as you move your career forward.

Student Level:  

Student Time Commitment:   Full Time

Team Structure:   -

Program Goals
TBD
Format Structure

Single Project Single Team

Format Title Multiple Projects Multiple Teams
Format Description
Benefits For Industry Partners
Project Modality Fully Remote
Industry Partner Requirements to Participate
Project Topics Corporate Social Responsibility Customer Service & Account Management Data Management Growth Strategy International Affairs Marketing Mergers & Acquisitions Operations Product Design & Development Purchasing, Logistics, Supply Chain Quality Control Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis Research & Development
Target Industries Education
Skills & Expertise
Location Information & Preferences

Local (within 30 miles) Located Anywhere Regional (within 90 miles)

Sponsorship

No Sponsorship Required

Compensation

Following compensation will be offered to the students:

Exactly $0.0 per hour

Other Requirements
Expected Time Commitment For Project Managers 2 Hours per week
Key Program Dates Due Date
Request for Proposal published

Collaboration request published. Industry Partners may express interest in participating.

Mar 30 2022, 12:00.00 AM
Interview

Educators will begin interviewing interested Industry Partners to discuss project ideas.

Apr 15 2022, 12:00.00 AM
Proposal Application Deadline

Final date for Industry Partners to express interest in participating.

Jul 24 2022, 12:00.00 AM
Finalize Project Charter

Educators and Industry Partners finalize project charters, legal documents, and background materials.

Aug 09 2022, 12:00.00 AM
Official Program Launch

We’ll find a time on this day for you to meet with the students to kick off your project.

Sep 12 2022, 12:00.00 AM
Official Program End

We’ll find a time on this day for you to meet with the students to wrap up your project.

Dec 08 2022, 12:00.00 AM

Project Overview

Project Details
Project Title Machine Learning In Finance And Marketing
Project Synopsis

What is the challenge or opportunity you are trying to address within your organization?

DIGITAL MARKETING  (Hybrid Technical & Non-technical)
  • Implement the full workflow of digital marketing, ranging from digital product design to AI-driven generation of content, videos, ads, and measurement of performance across multiple social media platforms.
  • Students can concentrate on digital product design, AI-driven content generation, web scraping and researching top product features and trends,  and or data-driven strategy performance metrics across multiple social media and marketing platforms, among other areas.
  • Test various ML and data-driven approaches for different areas of the digital marketing lifecycle
  • Web scraping data from major e-commerce websites, social media, affiliates, crypto, and NFT platforms to analyze supply/demand and pricing trends based on product features.
  • Use APIs for AI-driven content generation for digital marketing purposes
  • Evaluate and test AI avatars based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and other technologies for AI-driven content generation

BIG DATA & MACHINE LEARNING (focus on Unstructured Data & Natural Language Processing - NLP)
Research and implement NLP algorithms for extracting, cleaning, processing, and analyzing text in multiple languages and formats, including the areas below:
  • Implementation of big data and machine learning projects with a focus on NLP and related technologies.
  • NLP - text web scraping from news, social media platforms, PDFs, etc.
  • NLP - Entity Recognition and Semantic analysis
  • NLP - optical character recognition (OCR) to transform the text into a machine-readable format
  • NLP - evaluate GTP-3 API and other approaches for text generation and summarization
  • NLP - topic modeling and content classification, including sorting content by topic, sentiment, degree of relevance, and other features
  • NLP - translation and multi-language features


What are some of the activities or action items you think will need to be taken to achieve your desired results?


What would make this project a success for your organization? What measurable results are you looking to accomplish?


Compensation

Following compensation will be offered to the students


Exactly $0.0 per hour

Sponsorship

No Sponsorship Required

Resources

Program Timeline

Touchpoints & Assignments Date Type

First Day of Classes

09/01/2022 Reminder

COPA Office Resources

09/01/2022 Reminder

Initial Team Meetings

09/06/2022 Reminder

Program Manager Outreach

09/16/2022 Reminder

Temperature Check #1

10/07/2022 Submission Required

Midterm Presentations

10/17/2022 Event

Midterm Presentation Submission

10/28/2022 Submission Required

Temperature Check #2

11/11/2022 Submission Required

Final Presentations

12/05/2022 Event

Looking to update your resume?

12/22/2022 Not Required

Post Engagement Survey

12/22/2022 Submission Required

Final Presentation Submission

01/09/2023 Submission Required

Projects

Filters
Project Organization Topics
Reimbursement vs. Self-Pay Go To Market Strategy Munevo GmbH Customer Service & Account Management Growth Strategy Marketing Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis Research & Development
Corporate Sustainability and ESG Finance Global AI
Machine Learning in Finance and Marketing Global AI
Predictive models for market capitalization of Advertising companies Standard Media Index (SMI)
Develop a business plan for Leven's next venture: Leven Market Leven Deli Co.
Transactional Net Promoter Score Tracking (NPS) and Surveying of End User Satisfaction combined with Robotic Process Automation Tool(s) eMazzanti Technologies
Whitestone Analytics: The future of M&A Advisory Services Whitestone Associates
Social Media Content Collateral & 2-Sided Marketplace Development Iconically Data Management Digital Marketing Growth Strategy Marketing Organizational Culture PR & Communications

Program Managers

Name Organization
Christina Alwell Herbal Vineyards

Teams

Team Name  Project Name  Team Members 
Standard Media Index (SMI): Fall 2022 Predictive models for market capitalization of Advertising companies
Leven Deli. Co Team: Fall 2022 Develop a business plan for Leven's next venture: Leven Market
Iconically: Fall 2022 Social Media Content Collateral & 2-Sided Marketplace Development
Munevo: Fall 2022 Reimbursement vs. Self-Pay Go To Market Strategy
Global AI #2 Team: Fall 2022 Machine Learning in Finance and Marketing
eMazzanti Technologies: Fall 2022 Transactional Net Promoter Score Tracking (NPS) and Surveying of End User Satisfaction combined with Robotic Process Automation Tool(s)
Global AI #1 Team: Fall 2022 Corporate Sustainability and ESG Finance
Whitestone: Fall 2022 Whitestone Analytics: The future of M&A Advisory Services