AI Engineering · 400-level
Capstone: Ship & Evaluate an AI System
AIE-4904 creditscapstonebadge: ai-engineerprereqs: AIE-401
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Sections & lessons
01
Capstone kickoff: scope your system
- Choosing and scoping an end-to-end AI system to shipconcept45 min
02
Architecture design review
- Peer/mentor review of the proposed design before buildconcept90 min
03
Build sprint 1: retrieval or agent core
- Ingestion + retrieval, or the planner-executor coreconcept90 min
04
Build sprint 2: structured outputs + tools
- Wiring function calling and/or MCP tool integrationconcept90 min
05
Build sprint 3: guardrails & security pass
- Red-teaming your own system before anyone else doesconcept90 min
06
Build sprint 4: eval suite construction
- Writing the golden set that decides if this shipsconcept90 min
07
Build sprint 5: cost/latency + observability
- Pricing the system at scale before defending itconcept90 min
08
Load/capacity test
- Finding and fixing the first node that breaks under loadconcept90 min
09
Defense prep: assemble the evidence
- Packaging eval scores, cost report, and guardrail resultsconcept90 min
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Capstone defense
- Ship & evaluate the system live — AI Engineer credentialconcept150 min
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