The Crossland Group is a global partnership company that helps their clients achieve sustainable impact. Their expertise lies in analyzing and optimizing organizational ecosystems. Emphasizing the importance of individuals, the value of relationships, and the necessity for strategic partnerships, the Crossland Group works with their clients to uncover talent, opportunities, and strategies that will enable the organizatoin to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Working with a diverse group of cross-sector clients, the Crossland Group has a holistic view of these challenges and the best practices to overcome them. The Crossland Group crafts frameworks around an organization’s social and business impact goals. Their high-touch approach enables them to discover clients’ strengths, values and needs, sometimes pairing them with collaborative partners.

The Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute is an interdisciplinary community of students and faculty dedicated to research and education topics related to computer technology in support of human activity and society. The Master’s program is a rigorous 12-month curriculum in which students complete coursework in programming, design, psychology, HCI methods, and electives that allow them to personalize their education experience. During their second and third semesters, the students participate in a substantial Capstone Project with an industry sponsor.

The Capstone Project course curriculum is structured to cover the end to end process of a research and development product cycle, while working closely with an industry sponsor on new ideas that may work with their existing human-to-machine technology. The goal of this 32 week course is to give each student the opportunity for “real-life” industry project, similar to an actual experience in a research/design/development setting.

Company sponsors benefit from the innovative ideas produced by the students, to fix existing systems or reach into new markets. Some companies also use this project as a recruiting tool, offering industry positions to the top producers in their project team.

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Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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