iSchool holds Senior Design Challenge
Kaushal Toprani
Issue date: 6/9/06 Section: Sci-Tech
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The Second Annual iSchool Senior Design Challenge, held June 14, featured five projects that addressed various problems that affect student lives.
Seniors in the College of Information Science and Technology were able to submit their senior design projects to the competition, which had a top prize of $2000. There were 12 applicants, said Associate Professor Gregory Hislop, who also taught senior design this past year. The top five groups presented at the challenge.
Apt Management, the group that developed the Apartment Management System, a Web-based property management system, won the top prize. The second place group was The Pen is Mightier for developing the Class Master Plus, a course registration system for students. In third came Triple Threat, a three-man team that developed RAPID, a real-time alert system to integrate into SEPTA. Honorable mention went to Outcasters and Crash. Outcasters developed Lecture Channel, a podcast management system designed for academia. Crash developed The Allocation Tracker, a niche tool designed to digitize the annual student activity allocation process run by the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee.
David Fenske, dean of the college, called the projects "a one up from last year."
The Apt Management group, which consisted of Siddharta Anand, Michael Andescavage, Jeffrey Beno, Joseph James, Andrew Smith and Douglas Traub, got their idea from a group member's family struggles with property management.
"My father has difficultly managing the numerous properties that he owns. Information that he needs is often unorganized and inaccessible. As a result, he can't focus on future property purchases or investments because the mundane tasks take up too much of his time," James said.
The Apartment Management System is able to store data regarding "employees, tenants, units, leases, maintenance requests, and can process rent payments," James said. The system allows for tenants to pay their rent and file maintenance requests online.
Seniors in the College of Information Science and Technology were able to submit their senior design projects to the competition, which had a top prize of $2000. There were 12 applicants, said Associate Professor Gregory Hislop, who also taught senior design this past year. The top five groups presented at the challenge.
Apt Management, the group that developed the Apartment Management System, a Web-based property management system, won the top prize. The second place group was The Pen is Mightier for developing the Class Master Plus, a course registration system for students. In third came Triple Threat, a three-man team that developed RAPID, a real-time alert system to integrate into SEPTA. Honorable mention went to Outcasters and Crash. Outcasters developed Lecture Channel, a podcast management system designed for academia. Crash developed The Allocation Tracker, a niche tool designed to digitize the annual student activity allocation process run by the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee.
David Fenske, dean of the college, called the projects "a one up from last year."
The Apt Management group, which consisted of Siddharta Anand, Michael Andescavage, Jeffrey Beno, Joseph James, Andrew Smith and Douglas Traub, got their idea from a group member's family struggles with property management.
"My father has difficultly managing the numerous properties that he owns. Information that he needs is often unorganized and inaccessible. As a result, he can't focus on future property purchases or investments because the mundane tasks take up too much of his time," James said.
The Apartment Management System is able to store data regarding "employees, tenants, units, leases, maintenance requests, and can process rent payments," James said. The system allows for tenants to pay their rent and file maintenance requests online.
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