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such as co-op, to put students
at the forefront of technological
developments in a wide range of
industries.
The faculty offers programs
at SFU's Burnaby and Surrey campuses.
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date and asked professors for their feedback, which was really helpful," says
Mak.
Despite working some late nights ("As the night gets longer and people
get hungrier, the Sasquatch appears," says Tang with a laugh), the team stuck
it out — with great success.
"I am particularly happy when our students are not intimidated by the
challenge of ambitious projects, and this is the case with ObelXTech," says the
capstone course professor Andrew Rawicz, who reviewed the projects with se
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nior lecturer Steve Whitmore. "As they say, sci-fi writers have futuristic ideas
and good engineers,
with a lot of imagination,
can make it real."
Whitmore agrees: "The team did a remarkable job synthesizing the vari
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ous engineering science skills they learned over the past five years. They took
on a complicated technology that has real commercial potential."
The team members are all embarking on their own journeys — including
PhD studies at Stanford, a co-op work term with Amazon in Toronto and a
final semester before starting work at Microsoft — but they're still keen to
continue developing their project with the goal of seeing their invention in
the marketplace.
Tang explains: "The capstone shows you how a startup works — you get
to work on your own idea and follow it through. We have a lot ideas of how
we can take this project forward and we know what has to be done to make it
work even better."
About SFU capstone projects
All SFU engineering science students conclude their degrees with a capstone proj-
ect. This practical, engaging and often entrepreneurial development project pro-
vides students with a forum to tackle engineering problems of their own choosing
in a dynamic and innovative way.
