03-21-2024, 08:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2024, 08:59 AM by danbrotherston.)
(03-21-2024, 03:54 AM)plam Wrote:(03-19-2024, 10:22 PM)nms Wrote: These capstone competitions plant seeds in the minds of young engineers who become tomorrow's professional engineers either in consulting firms or in government. You never know what might happen!
A lot easier in software, but I'm aware of one Waterloo SE capstone project that became a company. You can buy the app, and people use it.
"A lot easier in software" is the understatement of the century...quite literally. I too can make an app for sale in the app store...I in fact have done so...you can do it as a hobby (not saying that's what they've done), but redesigning a major arterial road in a major city...that's not a hobby...no matter how much better hobbyists might be at it than the highly paid engineers we actually trust with the job---ASK ME HOW I KNOW! (And yes, I am pissy about this...sorry about that)