MIS seniors presented final projects at the Fall 2017 Capstone Project Showcase. The showcase featured ten teams of seniors who presented projects on everything from automated grocery store checkout to a better way to find events in the area.
The winning team, which was selected by a panel of industry experts and Temple faculty, designed a platform for engineers to procure and track equipment for universities and makerspaces. The platform uses digital forms and cloud technology to procure lab equipment transparently. Mentored by Chris Cera, CEO of Arcweb Technologies, the Sandbox team of Shawn Niederriter, Ed Lahm, Zach Trona, and Ken Fong received a $500 prize.
The full roster of projects presented at the December 2017 event included:
MIS Achievement Points
An application that analyzes student data, identifies patterns, and provides suggestions for how MIS students can earn MIS Professional Achievement Points to ensure that they graduate on time.
Team: Marc Gold, Adriana Shuster, Josh Veloso, Run Zhu
Mentor: Munir Mandviwalla
Temple Course Scheduling 1
An application that utilizes historical data to provide better academic planning recommendations to academic advisors and course administrators.
Team: John Canavati, Liang Wu, Kevin Zheng, Taiki Sugiyama
Mentor: Sunil Misra
Temple Course Scheduling 2
A platform that helps course administrators and academic advisors better plan for upcoming semesters to ensure the most efficient allocation of resources.
Team: Melina Ghuman, Xueming (Ming) Guo, Kou-Lun Chang.
Mentor: Joe Spagnoletti
RoomMe
An application that provides a centralized platform for college students to identify and connect with potential roommates based on various preferences.
Team: Xiaozhou (Hana) Yu, Matt Oberst, Josh Grover, Kasey Brown
Mentor: Sondra Barbour
Maptivities
A central hub for users to identify events in their area, connect with others attending those events, and arrange for safe transportation to and from the area.
Team: Dan Genuario, Chris Resentreter, Stan Okoro, Serena You
Mentor: Bruce Fadem
Sandbox
A procurement platform for universities and makerspaces who are looking to purchase and track engineering equipment while managing their inventory.
Team: Shawn Niederriter, Ed Lahm, Zach Trona, Ken Fong
Mentor: Chris Cera
TU Study
A way for students at Temple University to identify and reserve common spaces for studying. App will allow for reservations in the TECH Center, Writing Center, and more.
Team: BS Srinath Amruth, Glen M. Diener, Jacky Wong
Mentor: Cindy Leavitt
Impulse
An application that combines real-time biometric data with GPS to allow police offers to more efficiently call for back-up when in pursuit of a suspect.
Team: Tony Nguyen, Weiming He, Yaning Wang, Siling Zhang
Mentor: John Wiggs
Grocery Guru
A mobile application that allows grocery shoppers to scan as they go and manually check out rather than waiting in line at the store.
Team: Tony Wu, Vincent Furlong, Emily Schucker, Jonathan Kerr
Mentor: Sukumar Narayanan
Intro
Rather than using physical business cards, Intro allows users to sync their social media accounts and contact information into one application so that it can be shared with others in an instant.
Team: Ben Bucceri, Martin Esser-Munera, Oscar Zhang, Matt Maling, Mohammad Alkurdi
Mentor: Niraj Patel
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