On the SE490 or SE463 Learn site, self register your SE463 specification group, which is generally your SE490 design team.
This is needed so that you can receive grades for your deliverables.
So far, this group registration is the only point at which we will be using Learn in this course. Later, we may be adding the use of its drop boxes for delivering deliverables instead of by e-mail.
If
you are an SE490 student now or were in the Spring term
or
are part of a design team that has members that are taking
SE490 now or took it in the Spring,
then
you are a member of an SE490 design team that already has a
team number, N.
If
it is you that is in SE490 now,
then
you got N on 8 September 2025.
else
ask your teammates what N is.
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In either of these circumstances, the number of your SE463
specification group is N,
which is a number between 1 and 30, inclusive.
else
the number of your SE463 specification group is M,
that is a number between 31 and 40, inclusive.
Together with your groupmates, go to SE463 Learn site and
self register the group with a group number between 31 and 40,
inclusive,
that is not yet taken by any other group.
Write a one-page abstract describing the system that your group
will be specifying and
e-mail it to
the course e-mail address.
See below about the contents of the
abstract.
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The deadline for self-enrolling in your SE463 specification group on the SE463 Learn site is Wednesday, 10 September at 5:00 PM. If you fail to do so by that deadline you will receive a 5% penalty on your final course grade, provided you do this by midnight on the same day. Failure to get it done by midnight will result in an additional 2% penalty per day on your final course grade.
The abstract is a not-more-than-one-page elevator pitch that tells a potential investor enough detail about the use of the features of your capstone project that E can decide whether to invest.
Many SE490 teams will have an abstract from before. In that case, use it; if you want to update it, please do so!
If you don't have an abstract for whatever reason, then make one up. It doesn't matter that it will change, because, it's the basis for the first three deliverables. Historically, what is learned doing these first deliverables ends up causing changes to the abstract.