Last Updated on Monday, 28 August 2017 11:22 Written by Phạm Thu Hường Sunday, 12 June 2016 09:07

In 11/6/2016, cycle 6 students from Bachelor of  Computer and Information Sciences with a major in IT Service Science collaborated between HCMUS-VNU, Vietnam and Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand successfully presented their capstone project.  

Pragmatic project and enhancing skills:

Capstone project is a subject from the curriculum of ITEC seniors,Bachelor of  Computer and Information Sciences with a major in IT Service Science collaborated between HCMUS-VNU, Vietnam and Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. Students receive actual requirements from other domestic and international companies and begin to deploy these requirements into software or services. The total time to complete these task is 6 months.

Since 100% students qualified the IELTS certificates, they could easily write report and present the whole projects in English in front of the capstone councils from both of the HCMUS professors and AUT professors.

Students shared us that besides the technical knowledge they had learned, the most important skills that they gained from capstone was English skill, communicating skill, negotiating skill, team working, time managing and resolving problems.

The employment opportunity is widely open:

Besides the guests from AUT and HCMUS, there were also presentatives from Home Credit, LogiGear, NIFTIT. They wanted to learn from these projects and somewhat “scouted” on potential applicants for their own.

Mr. Petteri Kaskenpalo, member of Bachelor of  Computer and Information Sciences with a major in IT Service Science collaborated between HCMUS-VNU, Vietnam and Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand., said:” The quality of capstone project and the quality of how students present their team project are on point and completely outstanding as compare to capstones from previous years. Demo videos are very creative. The students are also confident in the way they present these projects and how they answer questions from the capstone councils is beautifully smooth”.

After the seminar, Mr. Quach Van Hung, NIFTIT, said that he was impressed not only by the quality of the project but also the passion of these students. Especially, Mr. Hung also interested in working with 3 groups that, according to him, had the potential and fitted to the orientation of his company.

The capstone councils, the presentative of enterprises and cycle 6 students taking memorable photo.

Science Service is a completely new major in Vietnam, in which people focus on model and technique that will be implemented to resolve IT problem and services. According to ITEC, 97%  students graduating from theBachelor of  Computer and Information Sciences with a major in IT Service Science collaborated between HCMUS-VNU, Vietnam and Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand earned a spot in the working force right the way, only 3% left pursuing higher level of education in either domestic or international program.

The program focuses on applying technical knowledge that students learning in class to pragmatic application. ITEC students equipped well enough to be one of those high quality applicants for the enterprise and employment.