Client Role
Share the educational problem, target users, constraints, existing materials, success criteria, and feedback on prototypes.
Client partners
How partner organizations contribute to student projects.
Clients help ET617 teams work on authentic educational needs while keeping scope, feedback, and handover expectations clear.
Meeting Expectations
Participate in scheduled discovery, review, and final handover meetings. Short weekly or fortnightly check-ins are ideal when feasible.
Mentoring Interaction
Clients, mentors, and teams coordinate around requirements, priorities, risks, and decisions that affect learning value or deployment.
Expected Involvement
Provide timely feedback, identify representative users where appropriate, and clarify non-negotiable domain or organizational constraints.
IPR and Open Source
Project licensing, ownership, attribution, and future use should be discussed early with instructors and documented in the repository.
Responsible Data
Clients should avoid sharing sensitive personal data unless explicitly approved and necessary for the educational purpose.
Scope note: Student projects are educational prototypes built within a semester. They may become useful systems, but production deployment requires additional review, maintenance planning, and institutional approval.