Stuffing more learning into the computer engineering curriculum bag: capstone course preparation

Today\´s university computer engineering curriculum is typically of a broad range of diverse topics. Often a student\´s first opportunity to link their diverse topics together to a common goal occurs during their last semester in their senior capstone course. Also, the curriculum requires common engineering and liberal arts courses which further strain the typical student\´s ability to cover computer engineering topics in much depth. A short elective summer course was offered for rising juniors. This course provided an introduction to embedded computer systems and exposed students to other computer engineering topics. It also served as a "capstone project dry run.".