Fall 2002 – Barr Engineering

Barr Engineering requested a few students who were capable of creating a web application that searches for people with certain skills. The application is called Barr Skill Finder. Scholastica students Andy Fahlstrom, Curt Zachman, Nate Alvar and Melissa Huber developed this using MS Access and Visual Studio.Net Active Server Pages. The Finder was composed of four tables and ran on IIS 5.0 with MS Office components. The fascinating part about this project was that Barr can use this program with their every day Human Resource activities.

Fall 2002 – Peepers.com

Kim Fenstad, Rob Kehr, and Debsy Mukherjee worked together to build a web tracking statistical web site for Peepers.com. They built the web site using a small piece of JavaScript, which gathers environmental variables like IP addresses and sends that information through the URL to PHP script. The PHP script then takes the URL and copies that information and stores it into a MySQL database. On the front-end of the project there is an HTML page that lets the user select what dates they want to display. After the user selects the dates they have to hit submit; a PHP script is called to display the corresponding information for those dates selected.

Fall 2002 – Nemadji Research

Janell Bice, Ian Smith, and Sandi Thoreson designed and implemented an internet-based database system to track employee time at Nemadji Research Corporation in Bruno, MN. The employees that work out of the office can “punch in” from any internet browser and location. The program keeps track of banked employee hours. This system enhances the working environment for Nemadji employees because they can access it remotely. Nemadji also uses the system to monitor employee time spent on different projects.

Fall 2002 – Hermantown Schools

Buddy Mills, Brett Nyquist and Russ Kurhajetz created a website for the Hermantown School District that allows staff, students, and citizens of Hermantown to access information about ISD 700. The team used Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 to build the website and Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for creating and manipulating graphics. The objectives for the site were to give it a new look, make it easily updateable and to include important information.

Fall 2000 – Peepers.com

Peepers.com is a Duluth-based company who specializes in online purchasing of eyewear products. Recently they were bought out by Eyecity.com, a larger company in the same field. Glenn Johnson, Derek McCorison, and Jason Worlie chose this as their Senior Project because Peepers needed help making themselves compatible with Eyecity. The first step was to transfer the Peepers.com database from a FoxPro system to a SQL server. When this was completed the students developed online reports for Peepers.com users. The last step in the project was to develop online purchasing through Eyecity.com. This project was interesting because Peepers was in the midst of change and the students were able to help simplify that process.

Fall 2000 – Saint Mary’s Duluth Clinic

Jennifer Dobbs, Andrew Middleton and Andrew Kusler created a Change Request Form online and linked it to a Saint Mary’s Duluth Clinic Database. The team created the online portion of the project using FrontPage and an Active Server Page was developed to link it to the database using SQL Server 7.0.

Fall 1998 – Northern Pine Girl Scouts

The Duluth branch of Northern Pine Girl Scouts needed to update their office computer system. Leah Grubich, Hettianne Haarklau, Robert Henkel and David Hoen took it on as their Senior CIS Project and were able to make the changes the office needed. They began their work by taking inventory of all hardware and software. Next they removed unnecessary software and installed needed software. They connected two more computers to the Internet, established a file server and set up a web page for them. Finally, they tried to setup inter-office email; however they were unable to accomplish this because of time limitations. Overall the project was a success and the Girl Scout office was extremely appreciative.