Engineering Projects in Community Service

11 December 2007

Foreword

• Team members

• Project Description/Problems

• Goals

• Solution

• Setbacks

• Future Recommendations

Team Members

• Team Leader– Henry Teng

• Information Team– Sub-Leaders

• Justin Abang• Mani Gill

– Members• Jason Kanar• Nicholas Demarco• Henry Teng• Raul Munoz

• Communication Specialist

– Mani Gill• Information Technologist

– Sub-Leaders• Thomas Le• Federico Viscarra

– Members• Gabriel Avila• Raymond Harris• Edwin Solórzano• Gilberto Perez

EPICS

About our Client

ClientsRosalina Aranda

Jeff WrightValerie Leppert

CastleScience and Technology

Center

Bloodsource

Mining and Mineral Museum

Bobcat Radio

Merced office of education

AWP

Animal Shelter

Rock Climbing Wall

WetlandsProject

EPICS

Problems

• Not enough members in a Service Learning team

– The school is relatively new, therefore there is not enough students to fill the teams.

– Each with special expertise in a certain area of the project. (Doesn’t necessarily have to be someone with an engineering major)

– Problem comes from schedule conflicts.

Goals

• Advertisement

• Introducing all service learning teams in UC Merced to future students.

• Building a Registration Site

• Teaching other teams skills of dealing with software and web designing

Advertisements

• Posters and Flyers describing SLP and EPICS

• Brochure

Advertisements

Presentation Flyers

Introducing SLP

• Update information for each of the service learning teams

• Interviewing the team members

• Information is given to IT Members to update the information

Information Technology Team

What we proposed1.To Design a Website2.To create a registration site

What we accomplished1.Plone/Zope and Python Skills2.Improved Website3.Began registration site

Old Service Learning Website

Problems

• Old Service Learning Website

– Difficulty in navigation

– Unappealing

– Disorganized

– Unable to find the correct links.

New Website

•More appealing

•Easier to navigate

•Able to customize different features

Online Registration System• Purpose:

– Integrate with the School Registrar.

– Team Leaders can pick students and bring them into their teams through an online survey.

– This system will also determine a student’s availability by his or her schedule.

– Eliminates standard filing and schedule conflicts.

Sub-team #4IT team

• Objective: To help other service learning teams with their plone website.

• Started by learning the basics of plone; attended plone tutorials with both Dr. Gavilan and Shuan Ekhause.

• The team that we helped was the A Woman’s Place

• We will still be here next semester willing to help the next service learning team.

Future Recommendations

• More ideas to improve the information system.

• Recruitment

– Specifically upper division students majoring in CSE

Engineering Projects in Community Service