Here are various term project ideas helping people around RPI. If interested, contact the person directly in the next week or so. You might prepare a resume first. If several people contact the same person, then (s)he will get back to you.
From: "James M Tien" <tienj@rpi.edu>
I'd be interested in having a student(s) work with me on DSES' WWW page.
From: "Barb" <NELSOB2@pfacs2.pfac.rpi.edu>
Your offer has peaked my interest. I am an architect with Campus Planning & Facilities Design. I am currently the Project Manager for renovations to the Freshman Commons Dining Hall which will take place this summer. We have a need for signage design and development for a number of uses. Signs will be installed to designate the different food service areas (similar to a food court but not as trendy). The different food service areas will need signage which creates individual identities for thos spaces. We also are devloping a display of works by students, current and historic, 2 and 3 dimensional. We will need signage which describes the items displayed, (such as the RPII sail plane, various models and equipment prototypes). With the emphasis on Student, it would be wonderful to work with students on the camera ready work or the actual installations. We also have opportunity for supergraphics on large wall areas which might be collage compositions with photos and drawings intermixed.
If this sounds like it fits your bill just let me know. I'm at 6041. Thanks.
From: "Jonathan C. Newell" <newelj@rpi.edu>
The impedance imaging project makes images and movies of events in the body like breathing and the heartbeat. I'd like somebody to take a good representative movie and put it on my Home Page, along with a little explanatory text. This might also involve scanning in some color prints as explanatory material. Prof. J. Newell
The Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy Department is interested in having graphics designed for our homepage.
(URL: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/physics.html)
Thanks,
Kate Spilker
Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy
Phone: x6320
Fax: x6680
Email: spilkc@rpi.edu
From: Laura Tanski <tanskl@rpi.edu>
The Dean of the Faculty Office needs to establish an information source
for the Rensselaer community about curriculum reform on the web. We want to
include links to information that the schools may have as well as provide
frequent information updates and do questions & answers.
Let me know if this is an appropriate project for one of your class members.
Many thanks!!
Laura Tanski
Director, Academic Budgets & Planning
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180-3590
Ph (518)276-6529 Fax (518)276-4061
From: stephi@rpi.edu (Irving Stephens)
The library is developing new homepages for a new information system next year. From at least my perspective, I'd be interested and willing to work with students to see what they would do to develop a "services" oriented homepage. What are the "things" that students what to get to most of the time and how would they relate policies, forms, staff info etc..... Let me know
Irving Stephens\
Richard G. Folsom Library
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180-3590
Tel 518-276-8325
I do have an application that could use some design (and possibly some programming) - but I am not sure if it is what you are looking for. Here goes, anyway. If necessary, I can provide access to a Newton Development Environment in my lab for student programming.
The Hydraulic Conductivity Test Assistant (KTest) is a program to aid in the collection and analysis of data during Hydraulic Conductivity Tests. Hydraulic Conductivity tests are commonly used in groundwater science to determine the flow parameters of an aquifer. Test data consists of water level measurements at various times. For analysis, the time and water levels are plotted and compared to a "type curve" and aquifer parameters are calculated.
The KTest program is envisioned to primarily provide (1) automatic plotting of data during acquisition, (2) automatic calculation of aquifer parameters based on best fit of data to "type curve", and (3) determination of the next optimal data collection time.
The Newton PDA has been chosen as the target platform because of (1) portability and size advantages in the field environment, and (2) simple, pen based input capability usable by field personnel.
Let me know if this is what you need, or if you would like more information. Kevin
Kevin Brewer
Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
http://www.geo.rpi.edu/facstaff/brewer/brewer.html
(voice) (518) 276-2124
(fax) (518) 276-8627
(email) brewek@rpi.edu
From: Paul Schoch <schoch@hibp.ecse.rpi.edu>
You offered student help on multimedia or graphics type problems. Here are three topics that we teach to our students. I feel that a significant fraction of the students fail to grasp these when first presented. Maybe a more graphic approach would help. Often the students fail to get even a basic understand of the topic.
I don't have detailed ideas of how to approach these topics, so your students would need to be creative as well as having programming skills. I can promise that if they develop something reasonable, we will try it.
Win Wilson is general manager of Adirondack Adhesives in ALbany. He would like to set up a Web page for his company and has been looking for a RPI student to work for him.
Adirondack Adhesives produces industrial type adhesives for belts and manufacturing processes. They do little local business, but are well know in their specialty both nationally and internationally. I know he does a great deal of work with European, Asian and Australian companies. My knowledge of the specifics is limited.
Adirondack is a very RPI friendly company-Win received his MBA at RPI, his dad, Dwight Wilson, was former chair of the Biology department and the they have a RPI engineering staff.
This would be a great experience for a student to have "real world" applications and constraints for their projects.
If you are interested, please contact Win at Adirondack 869-2454, fax 869-3584, or email wilsonw@rpi.edu.
If any of your students would be interested in a one day project of setting up 4 windows based PCs for netscape, the Alumni House would love to have them!
If you have any questions, I can be reached at x2794 or foxh@rpi.edu
Thank you,
Heliena Fox
Assistant Director
Alumni Relations
From: "John B. Brunski" <brunsj@rpi.edu>
Actually, I may have a possible project for one of your students. You could call it "computer-assisted biomechanical analysis of oral implant placement".
I currenly have a Matlab-based program that can help a clinician perform an analysis of oral implant loading. This is useful when a clinician plans where to put implants in the mouth; how many implants would be needed; what size implants would be best, etc. However, the problem right now is that most dental clinicians are not comfortable running computer models or doing biomechanical analyses. My Matlab m-file is simply a version of one of our theoretical models of implant loading, and to use it would probably be beyond the realm of most dentists. However, with some bells and whistles, plus decent graphics, etc., one of your students could probably make it into a much more user-friendly package that a dentist could use via the www or a self-contained disk and documentation.
If you think it has possibilities, I'd be happy to talk more with a volunteer.
John Brunski
From: Robert Athanasiou Md <athanr@rpi.edu>
Hi there, I understand taht you may have access to the names of some students who are much better able to deal with the intricacies of the arcane inner workings of applications than I am. I have a problem with Microsoft access. We have a huge data base with some macros that need to be updated from version 1 to 2 and some reports generated. If there is a studnet that knows Access or could learn it quickly and wants to help for the standard $$ pleaseput him/her in touch with me.
Thanx,
Dr. A.
From: "Steve Breyman" <breyms@rpi.edu>
I wondered whether an appropriate project for a student in your course could be centralization and standardization of the environmentally-oriented web pages at Rensselaer.
No less a www authority than Lori Doyle of ITS told me she was confused by the several, overlapping, confusing environmental sites available through RPInfo.
Perhaps a student might track them all down, standardize their "looks" or approaches, and have them all available as links from some master Environmental Programs at Rensselaer page.
Thanks for making your talented students available for civic minded projects.
Best,
Steve Breyman
Dept. of STS
From: "William L. Siegmann" <siegmw@rpi.edu>
In response to your note Rensserv: I need to build a Web site that will include some of the graphical images from my research group's work in acoustic propagation in the ocean. Don't know if this type of application would be relevant to your course or of interest to your students...but if so, I would be happy to provide further details.
Regards, Bill Siegmann
The International Center for Multimedia Education (ICME) at Rensselaer was recently founded to promote the advancement of multimedia education at all educational levels, including k-12, university, and corporate education. The goal of the ICME is to become a national resource for concepts, materials, and methods to encourage and support the use of multimedia tools in education.
Our current Web site (http:/ciue.rpi.edu/ICME/ICME.htm) is inadequate for a center that aspires to be a leader in multimedia. Students interested in working on our Web site can contact:
Sharon Finnerty
International Center for Multimedia Education
finnes2@rpi.edu
276-4847
Campus Planning and Facilities Design has been putting Rensselaer buildings on CADD for a number of years now. We can always use CADD help to input building floor plans. Cadd work would need to be .DGN, .DWG or .DXF compatible.
Some possibilities would be the '87 Gym and the Russell Sage Lab.
Kevin Smith, CP&FD, smithk@rpi.edu