Module 2 Overview

Theme

Literature, market, and domain review

Essential Question

What prior work and constraints shape the solution?

Module Components

• Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

• Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

• Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

• Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

• Instructor notes: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues

• Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

• Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic milestone evidence covering scope, implementation, evaluation, deployment readiness, and stakeholder value

Module Artifact

capstone portfolio with thesis, implementation evidence, evaluation report, and final defense materials focused on literature, market, and domain review: Write a domain review with source-backed assumptions.

Professional Setting

Students work as if advising a capstone review committee evaluating whether a student project is defensible, deployable, and well documented. Their work must be intelligible to faculty advisor, industry sponsor, technical reviewer, and presentation panel.