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Conference Web Site Redesign, Steven M. Pisarski
Conference Web Site Redesign, Steven M. Pisarski
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Sustainable Resources was a non-profit organization based out of Boulder, CO that, at the time of this project hosted yearly conferences to help find solutions to world poverty. Although, the previous web site had a professional appearance, it was not meeting their needs with regards to usability, extensibility, and maintainability, as they had been forced to rely heavily on a transient volunteer IT labor base. The aim of this project was to address their functional and maintenance problems. The application's front-end was built in adherence to the Model -view-Controller (MVC) design pattern and implemented using the Jakarta Struts framework and …
The Cherry Creek Sneak A Database Solution, Analissa Hilt
The Cherry Creek Sneak A Database Solution, Analissa Hilt
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The purpose of the database was to provide a repository of information about the race, the racers, the sponsors and other miscellaneous information that may in the future prove to provide a better understanding of the customers of The Sneak. This project was completed with the long-term goals that the information contained in the database will be utilized to reduce registration time, recruit prior year participants to participate in future events and provide a tool to intimately understand the customers of the race.
Design Of North Texas Pc Users Group Ecommerce Interface And Online Membership System, Jeir J. Steele
Design Of North Texas Pc Users Group Ecommerce Interface And Online Membership System, Jeir J. Steele
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The North Texas PC Users Group is a non-profit that is struggling with their existing membership process. This thesis explores the analysis of a new membership process and discusses the resulting new architecture and system design to implement it. The implementation of this new business process will reduce the time to produce the standard monthly reports and foster future membership retention efforts. The new design supports Ecommerce instant transactions, online availability of reports for the Board of Directors, and the access control of a member-only online site. The research for this project included an analysis of the cost, benefits, and …
Implementation Of Coeus Grant Management Software At The Desert Research Institute, Patricia Kingsmill
Implementation Of Coeus Grant Management Software At The Desert Research Institute, Patricia Kingsmill
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The Internet and electronic commerce have opened up new opportunities for efficiency in research administration. Public Law 106-107 or the Federal Financial Assistance Improvement Act signed on November 20, 1999 and the President's Management Agenda have formally charged federal grant-making agencies with creating a single electronic system to find and apply for federal grant opportunities. In response to this directive, recipient organizations will need the ability to electronically prepare and submit proposal information and receive funding data from the sponsoring agency. This project reviews the implementation of a software package, MIT's Coeus Grant Management System, as a solution to the …
Developing A Strategic Is Plan For The Cherry Creek Sneak, Stephanie Bass
Developing A Strategic Is Plan For The Cherry Creek Sneak, Stephanie Bass
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The Cherry Creek Sneak is the 3rd largest 5-mile race in the United States.Currently, 10% of the proceeds from the race are donated to the ColoradoGovernor's Council to fight childhood obesity. The co-owners of the race, Pat Downing and Paula Tiernen, live in different states, and because of this, are unable to manage The Cherry Creak Sneak, or any business regarding the race efficiently. In order to continue the race in the future, they have requested that the Cherry Creek Sneak website be the place where their business is conducted. The goal of this project, therefore, is to create a …
Implementation Of Operational Framework In The Nlp (Based On Mof And Itil Standards), James Kapp
Implementation Of Operational Framework In The Nlp (Based On Mof And Itil Standards), James Kapp
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
An operational framework, as proposed by the Microsoft Operational Framework (MOF) and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a process model for controlling and managing Information Technology (IT) operations. With a strict focus on IT operations, it provides the processes and terminology to coordinate and integrate the functional elements of an IT department. The Systems Engineering and Applications Development (SEAD) practicum is composed of four main groups; Data Access, Network, Integrated Services and Development. This professional project will propose the beginning framework for overall operation and integration of the SEAD Practicum with an emphasis on service support and documentation. …
Course Development For A College Java Programming Class, Nathan Dodge
Course Development For A College Java Programming Class, Nathan Dodge
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project documents the development of college-level curriculum for an Object Oriented Programming with Java course. The curriculum includes a set of lessons that students work through interactively. The lessons teach the fundamentals of object orientation. A goal of the project is to have students work with the same problem example throughout the entire set of lessons. Most texts on object orientation use several abstract examples which are used in a chapter or two of the text and are often not fully implemented. Each lesson of the project's curriculum presents an iteration of an evolving shape drawing application. Each lesson …
Development Of A Centralized Database System For Embracing Horses And The Urban Farm, April D. Hoskins
Development Of A Centralized Database System For Embracing Horses And The Urban Farm, April D. Hoskins
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Embracing Horses and The Urban Farm at Stapleton, is a nonprofit organization whose mission statement is to connect children from inner city neighborhoods to their natural environment, instilling a sense of respect, appreciation, and, ultimately responsibility for the plants and animals which share that space and a working knowledge of responsible stewardship of those plants and animals. To achieve this mission a paper based and generic database system have been utilized to record information pertaining to volunteers, financial donors, program offerings, and mailing distributions. These current systems no longer meet the needs of the organization, as the number of children …
Use Of Cross-Connect Clusters To Optimize Routing In Stm-64-Based Sdh Optical Network Systems, Bret William Durrett
Use Of Cross-Connect Clusters To Optimize Routing In Stm-64-Based Sdh Optical Network Systems, Bret William Durrett
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
With the migration to Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, which uses the concept of logical rings, for backbone transmission systems, one of the major concerns that has been brought up repeatedly is a method in which to bring sub-rate circuits from one ring to another without having to decompose the entire backbone data stream to its individual circuits. This is critically important since the backbone data rate can be as high as 10 Gigabits per second or greater and may carry several thousand circuits, ranging in data rate from less than 2.4 Kilobits per second to 2.5 Gbps (STM-16). One potential means …
Implementing A Product Lifecycle Management Solution, Christopher M. Ray
Implementing A Product Lifecycle Management Solution, Christopher M. Ray
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Aviation Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) is currently preparing for a lengthy FAA certification process that will require detailed documentation and verification of the accuracy of all components that will belong to the aircraft being developed (the Javelin). This includes but is not limited to contracts, detailed design specifications, CAD files, test and verification results, revision tracking, and effectivity of all components used in each aircraft. The company has recently flown its first nonconforming prototype and will be building subsequent test articles, which will be used for the process of the Javelin. In order to organize all of this information and …
Gateway Battered Women's Services Website Development Project, Lena Alhusseini
Gateway Battered Women's Services Website Development Project, Lena Alhusseini
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The development of a website for a non-profit organization concerned with domestic violence is described, including the needs assessment, methodology, implementation, finalization, and evaluation. Gateway Battered Women's Services (GBWS), in Aurora, Colorado, provides shelter, advocacy, and counseling for women and children affected by domestic violence. Its goal is the elimination of personal and societal violence against all women and children through education, support services, and promoting social change within the community. GBWS needed a web presence, a database, and an online counseling service to distribute information on domestic violence to potential clients and volunteers and to solicit donations. A questionnaire …
Emanager - Cdo Made Simple, Solomon Vedaprakash
Emanager - Cdo Made Simple, Solomon Vedaprakash
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The eManager application integrates the existing enforcement systems and MS Exchange Server 2003. The application exploits the benefits of CDO, ADO, LDAP, ADSI, XML and COM technologies. The application explicates the integration and utilization of CDO using VC++ programming language. It illustrates how CDO can be implemented effectively in various circumstances while maintaining uncomplicated application design and solutions. It demonstrates how CDO and ADO complements each other and interacts with other Windows artifacts such as ADSI, LDAP and Active Directory. The application implements the COM methodology that establishes the COM events using connection points and sinks. The integration and management …
Development Of Database And Web Site For D3multisport, Jay Garrison
Development Of Database And Web Site For D3multisport, Jay Garrison
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
Before this project, D3Multisport.com did not have a software application to track and monitor personal and progress information on athletes training for triathlon events. The previous process was manual, and although it helped provide a training schedule for an athlete it required the data be updated by hand. The process of developing a training program on an excel spreadsheet provided a good basis for the athlete to start the program, but was not suited to make dynamic adjustments if not optimally suited for the athlete. The application created in this project was designed to keep a coach updated on the …
Opnet, Arne, And The Classroom, Philip Doane
Opnet, Arne, And The Classroom, Philip Doane
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This paper examines OPNET Technology, Inc's management programs, and Regis University's Academic Research Network (ARNe) needs to find out which OPNET programs can meet the needs of ARNe. The method used was to examine ARNe's needs, and research Microsoft's SMF/MOF management framework, research OPNET's program and module offerings, research OPNET's University Program, and research how OPNET's programs are used at some other universities. The research was used to create a match up between Microsoft's Service Management Functions and OPNET's programs and modules. And it was used to create a list of textbooks, labs, and lab manuals that would work with …
The Design And Implementation Of The Megacomm Media Center's Extranet, Kenneth J. Quigley
The Design And Implementation Of The Megacomm Media Center's Extranet, Kenneth J. Quigley
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The Purpose of this thesis is to document the project that designed, configured and implemented a network infrastructure that provided the capability to segment, current and future, non-MegaComm Media Center companies that need IT services from the MegaComm Media Center (MMC) and provided Business-to- Business connectivity. The MegaComm Media Center, located in Littleton, Colorado, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the MegaComm Corporation. The MMC provides unique services to the cable industry. In support of these services, the MMC hosts several tenants. Prior to this project the tenants had access to internal MMC networks. The MMC also has several vendors …
Integration Of Interactive Voice Response Unit And Outage Management System, Chaomei Jiang
Integration Of Interactive Voice Response Unit And Outage Management System, Chaomei Jiang
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project provides a technical solution that integrates the Interactive Voice Response Unit (IVR) and the Outage Management System (OMS) for the Public Service Company. The IVR system is introduced because its automatic call logging functionality can process a large volume of phone calls from the customers reporting electrical service problems. This is a major improvement over the current Trouble Call Center (TCC) infrastructure that has a limited number of agents handling a relatively small number of customer calls. Because OMS can receive more calls, it then can predict the outage locations and causes more accurately, dispatch more repair crews …
Instrumented Stake Test, Louis Iii Berei
Instrumented Stake Test, Louis Iii Berei
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The information technology solution offered by this project provides a client with a measured accurate product for the purpose of new product and warranty design verification. A developing product, just off the drawing table or CAD computer will have no previous history of testing. Procedures and test equipment must be designed and developed in a time sensitive period due to production deadlines that will affect profitability. The ability to reuse the resulting test stands, computer hardware, data acquisition equipment, and software is a key element to a test laboratories bottom line. The goal of this project assigned to is to …
Development Of A Web Based Inventory Management System For A Small Retail Business, Chiranjib Sanyal
Development Of A Web Based Inventory Management System For A Small Retail Business, Chiranjib Sanyal
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project proposes a technical solution that will improve the inventory management for a small business company. The project envisions a situation where a company currently uses a client server based inventory management system in each store. The current system depends upon the store managers for inventory control functions like purchase order creation and inventory usage recording. Currently, each store sends the inventory consumption and ordering information to the corporate office on a weekly basis. As a result, the corporate office doesn't get up-to-date information on inventory level in the stores on a daily basis. Also, there is no established …
E-Mail Spam Filtering Solution For The Western Interstate Commission For Higher Education (Wiche), Jerry Worley
E-Mail Spam Filtering Solution For The Western Interstate Commission For Higher Education (Wiche), Jerry Worley
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
WICHE staff, consultants and constituents that connect to WICHE's network are provided with internet access and e-mail accounts. In the past, email was not monitored or controlled, other than scanning e-mail attachments for viruses with Norton Antivirus for Exchange Server. This has become a problem for several reasons. Just a few of the reasons are viruses, wasted staff time, inappropriate material stored on the network and inappropriate use of network resources. The WICHE Spam filtering solution includes monitoring and restriction of incoming and outgoing email, email attachment and storage limitations and filtering incoming email for Spam. All internal, incoming and …
Development Of An Online Business-To-Business Gift Box Company, Jason R. Lynn
Development Of An Online Business-To-Business Gift Box Company, Jason R. Lynn
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The Silvered Leaf & Co. project addresses a potential on-line web solution and e-business for marketing, selling and distributing specialized and contemporary theme-based gift baskets featuring products produced and manufactured on the Western Slope of Colorado. Currently, there are many web-based businesses that offer gift baskets with a variety of goods. However, all of the available options duplicate each other in quality, selection of products, and overall appeal. In addition, the web content and solutions on the existing sites are limited and cluttered. Each provides a few features that are appealing but none contain the majority of the important features …
Development Of A Model United Nations Website, Keir Paesel
Development Of A Model United Nations Website, Keir Paesel
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The purpose of this project was to create a website to support the annual Cairo American College Model United Nations (CACMUN) conference. Cairo American College is a private, non-profit, K-12 school for expatriate children living in Cairo, Egypt. Model United Nations (MUN) is an educational simulation of the United Nations. During MUN conferences, students assume the role of delegates from various countries, and work with peers to discuss and solve world issues. Each year, approximately 200 students from ten schools attend CACMUN. Most schools come from different countries in the Middle East. The conference needs to be advertised to potential …
Services Learning Practicum, Andrew Charles Swanson
Services Learning Practicum, Andrew Charles Swanson
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The Service Learning Practicum is a document driven knowledge management system. The purpose of the Practicum is to involve MSCIT students in IT projects that support and provide solutions to non-profit organizations or non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The main documents that drive the practicum are the student application; the NGO needs statement; and the student's thesis, design, and research documents. The practicum unites graduate students with NGOs. Both benefit from this union because the student is able to reach academic goals and the NGOs are able to implement low-cost or no-cost solutions for their IT needs. This project implements a graphic …
A Prototype Industrial Maintenance Software System To Apply A Proactive Approach To Equipment Failure, Arnold Ralph Persinger
A Prototype Industrial Maintenance Software System To Apply A Proactive Approach To Equipment Failure, Arnold Ralph Persinger
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project proposes a technical solution to create a proactive approach to industrial equipment maintenance for a large paper manufacturing facility. The traditional method for scheduling maintenance on manufacturing equipment uses a reactive approach. Reactive maintenance essentially means to perform repairs on equipment after failure has occurred; the process of these repairs begins by acquiring needed replacement part(s) utilizing a SAP (Systems Applications Products) system for authorization and ordering. Actual repairs are carried out by craftsmen based on their general knowledge of a specific trade and any previous experience concerning the failed equipment. The part(s) order through the SAP system …
Special Event Computerized Tracking Of Officers Reporting, Noel R. Macmahon
Special Event Computerized Tracking Of Officers Reporting, Noel R. Macmahon
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The New York City Police Department needs a way to rapidly and accurately account for and assign personnel during a pre-planned special event. There are currently many archaic systems utilized throughout the Department, yet none of these formats utilizes a computerized system. Because there is no single off-the-shelf product currently available to perform all of the narrow tasks involved in this problem, a solution needs to be developed. The solution to this problem is developing a system that will be a single standard for the entire Department. This solution will combine various hardware devices and off-the-shelf software products into a …
Development Of A Personal Diet Plan Database Application For Persons With Severe Food Allergies, Heather Suzanne Ward
Development Of A Personal Diet Plan Database Application For Persons With Severe Food Allergies, Heather Suzanne Ward
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project will research, analyze, design, and implement a computerized system that will assist patients in creating a personal diet plan based upon a "rotation diet." This diet, specifically designed for patients with severe food allergies, requires that a patient may only eat a particular food every n days (where n is any number), and foods from the same biological food family every n days. Currently, patients use either pen-and-paper or a computerized spreadsheet to create weekly or monthly food meal plans for the diet plan. The meal plans are usually transferred by hand to their daily or weekly shopping …
Development And Implementation Of An E-Commerce Database Application To Support St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Montez A. Toney
Development And Implementation Of An E-Commerce Database Application To Support St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Montez A. Toney
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project proposal is an endeavor to implement modern technology into long-standing processes at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. The modern technology is e-Commerce. The long-standing process is the method of paying tithes in a collection plate and ordering books, tapes etc. through a designated individual or committee. The goal of this project is to research realistic solutions and develop a practical plan to implement the project. Throughout this process, special care is taken to select resources that are moderately priced and straightforward to implement, this is to increase the probability of a successful implementation.
Establishing Regis Network Security Policy, Michael T. Ortwein
Establishing Regis Network Security Policy, Michael T. Ortwein
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project proposes to establish a security policy for the computer lab Local Area Network (LAN) at the Colorado Springs Campus (CSC) for the Network Lab Practicum (NLP) by completing a network analysis to determine requirements. Utilizing the current network configuration, a risk assessment will be performed to identify vulnerabilities and threats to the information system. Once the risk analysis is completed, a network security plan will be developed to protect system resources. The security policy will include, at a minimum, access policies, password management, firewall policy, policy on use of active code and the Internet, standards and interoperability policies, …
Development Of An Electronic Data Collection And Analysis System For The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, John Wietholder, Linton Myers
Development Of An Electronic Data Collection And Analysis System For The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, John Wietholder, Linton Myers
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (MFACM) in Chicago, Illinois has a large list of patrons. However, it currently utilizes an outdated database and paperbased system to track these individuals for marketing and membership purposes. A grant has been received from the Lila Wallace Foundation to streamline the data collection and analysis processes. The current goals are to increase the productivity of collecting data throughout MFACM departments and locations, to more fully analyze available data for marketing opportunities, and to create a replicable and sustainable data collection and reporting system. Further, the solution will help to build upon current IT …
Object Relational Mapping For Enterprise Application Architecture, Musafare Machisa
Object Relational Mapping For Enterprise Application Architecture, Musafare Machisa
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This project investigates the patterns/techniques used and issues that are encountered in developing object-oriented (OO) to relational data mappings for enterprise application architectures. The research will identify the different techniques of object relational data mapping as documented by Martin Fowler in "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" (text for MSCS 630). A prototype implementation will be developed using the techniques found in this research. The goal of the project is to analyze and understand Martin Fowler's patterns and other object relational mapping patterns used in industry and to recommend a set of "best practices".
Best Practices For Customer Resource Management (Crm), Richard Poirier
Best Practices For Customer Resource Management (Crm), Richard Poirier
Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)
This thesis will help to define the best practices for implementing a CRM (Customer Resource Management) system in corporate enterprises. The notion that CRM is just an Information Technology Software Application is shortsighted. CRM is a more global design incorporating vendors, supply chains, enterprises, and customers. In presenting this dissertation, I follow proven and respected processes in order to set a foundation that is necessary for a structured research framework to identify best practices in CRM systems.