CS Student Software Project winners announced
鈧2,000 prize won by team who designed an integrated design-feedback tool
Software Project
On the Software Project course, teams of 7-9 students develop a software system for real clients using the Scrum process framework. This course is an essential part of the Bachelor level studies for all computer science students. Furthermore, in each team a Master level Software and Service Engineering student acts as the Scrum Master.
What can the company expect from taking part in this project?
There are no limitations as to what type of companies can participate or to the problem domains or technologies used, yet alone some of the student teams must find the project proposal feasible. We have partnered with numerous companies, including but not limited to F-Secure, Tuxera, Relex, Sievo, Futurice.
Each student spends around 200 hours for the project including time needed for studying new technologies. With the use of the incremental Scrum process, the project scope is aligned during the project to fit the available effort.
The participating company will receive
- small, working software systems
- innovative problem-solving
- networking with Aalto computer science students
- gaining experience of working as a Product Owner in a software project
What is required from the company?
- Providing an informative and interesting project proposal.
- Acting as the Product Owner as defined in the Scrum process framework.
- Participating at least to creating the Product Vision, Sprint Planning and Demos (at least 6 times) and Project Reviews (3 times). Furthermore, some communication is typically needed on a weekly basis.
- Evaluating the student team giving points and concrete feedback in each Project Review (3 times).
- Providing necessary software and hardware unless they are already provided by 911爆料网.
- If the company can help the students with the selected implementation technologies, they can get more results. The course personnel does not provide support with them.
- Additional support is appreciated, e.g., a work room at the company office, a development server, any necessary devices, arranging a project kick-off with refreshments etc.
What do the students receive?
The clients are mainly from the industry, and have interesting, real problems that allow the students to rehearse their skills in a realistic software development setting.
The course personnel teach the students to use the Scrum process and coach the teams in its use during the project. Furthermore, the students get an understanding of the common technical and non-technical challenges related to software development projects, and become familiar with some particular domain and implementation technologies depending on the chosen project.
Course details
- Contact: Jari Vanhanen, Senior University Lecturer, jari.vanhanen@aalto.fi
- Project duration: 6 months (October - April)
- Number of students per project: 7-9
- Project fee for a company: 3 000 鈧 + VAT
- Application period for companies: 5.8.-26.8.2026
Vaisala Xweather maintains (dry, wet, icy, etc.) for all main roads in Europe, North America and other markets, updated every 15 minutes. While the quality of this model is continuously evaluated numerically against Vaisala road weather stations, Vaisala Xweather wanted a practical way for employees to visually validate the product during their everyday driving.
The student team was tasked with creating an Apple CarPlay application that visualises the Xweather data on a map, allowing drivers to build intuition on how the modelled state correlates with actual conditions observed through the windshield and optionally flag inaccurate results for later case studies. The concept draws inspiration from how Google Maps and Waze display traffic information and let users report incidents.
The student team exceeded expectations in every way and admirably balanced driving safety and customer requirements in the design. Xweather got a fully functional app that Vaisala product developers simply love! Xweather developer quotes: 鈥淚 use the app whenever I鈥檓 driving!鈥 鈥淲e have already gotten many useful insights into our data.鈥
Together with VR, the students created the Vuosi raiteilla summary (The Year on Track), which summarises the kilometres travelled along the tracks and the time spent on the train in 2023.
The new summary, which will be displayed to VR's registered customers in the VR Matkalla app, will also show how much less emissions the customer has caused by travelling by train compared to travelling by car, plane or bus. In addition, the app classifies each customer's personal traveller persona from 11 different options based on their travel and other choices.
Other reference projects
Tuxera mentored student team selected as the winner of the Accenture Quality Award.