Beyond College

Applying Your Knowledge

The capstone course of the computer science major is the senior project. For your project, you will go out into the community to find someone who has a problem that can be solved by computer techniques. That person becomes your “client.” In addition to the experience of developing a major project from start to finish, you will acquire tangible evidence of your skills to show a future employer. Recent computer science research projects have included

• Porting an assembler from DOS-based Pascal to Windows-based Java
• Designing and implementing an attendance tracker on a Palm Pilot
• Using machine-learning algorithms to predict graduation rates
• Developing software for visualizing graph algorithms
• Implementing a web-based quiz on plagiarism
• Implementing on-line voting for student elections
• Developing a robot that can seek out fires

Computer science majors at the Mount also participate in an ongoing community service project building and upgrading hardware components for personal computers. In addition, membership is available in the Mount’s student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Recent Internships

• Oracle
• Emmitsburg.net
• Emmitsburg Dispatch newspaper
• Fort Detrick Cancer Research Center