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InfiniTouch

InfiniTouch is an extra-large multi-point touch screen and musical instrument application. 

The display uses the Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) of infrared light and real-time computer vision techniques to track fingers pressed against the large rear-projected acrylic screen. 

The musical instrument application provides rich dynamic visual feedback that traditional instruments are incapable of.  It does this using configurable, linkable instrument layout components.

This multidisciplinary project involves collaboration with a team of students and advisors from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

William Morgan (Team Lead): wbm25@drexel.edu

Boris Block : bb45@drexel.edu

David Millar: David.W.Millar@gmail.com

  Dan Hennessey: dph29@drexel.edu

  Vijay Balchandani: vbb22@drexel.edu

  Zenko Klapko: zbk22@drexel.edu

REportal

REportal is an existing reverse engineering (RE) portal that is available at http://reportal.cs.drexel.edu. The portal provides a web interface to a heterogeneous suite of RE tools. The new iteration of REportal is based on loosely coupled services to provide an abstract report or representation of a software system based on user parameters. These parameters are matched against service semantics to properly select services in the proper order, bind to them and execute. The project involves wrapping the legacy assets and creating a tool to specify and automate the RE workflow that is supported by REportal. The project provides an automated service dispatcher that selects and binds to the various services on the fly at run time.

LISTEN

LISTEN is a turnkey voice to Signed English language interpreter that offers end users the ability to convert from spoken English to Signed English in a near real-time environment.  It offers easy integration with popular presentation software, and interactive modes for both Signed English training, and on-the-fly speech interpretation.

FullCourt

Full-Court Physics is an educational game where students learn physics by competing against the computer in an interactive basketball game. In the basketball game, each student must solve physics problems using well-known principles in order to advance the ball towards the net and to score points. The game will be used in high school and college freshmen classrooms to help facilitate the learning of physics. Since Full-Court Physics will be used in a variety of settings, it will be cross-platform to accommodate the different settings. In addition, Full-Court Physics also provides a teacher application that monitors each student’s progress throughout the game allowing the teacher to know who needs help. Also, Full-Court Physics will come with a physics engine called Phlash which can be used in the development of future games.

VODKA

VODKA is financial management and planning software, similar to Microsoft Money and Quicken, but refined for use by student organizations in a university.  Like Quicken and other similar software, VODKA does not directly affect the funds in financial accounts, rather is used to record transactions externally performed on the accounts.

MSDTool    (login with drexel CS Account)

MSDTool provides a computer aided engineering (CAE) framework for material scientists and engineers. Utilizing new models and analysis methods from research, in particular the work of the Microstructure Sensitive Design lab in Drexel University's material sciences department, MSDTool allows designers to visualize and explore the possible design parameters (e.g., elasticity) that are physically possible for a given material. Additionally, MSDTool permits researchers to add additional models and techniques into the system as needed. This system advances the state-of-the-art in the material sciences by putting new design methodologies in the hands of those who could benefit from them by means of applying software engineering techniques.

SITS

The Skills Inventory Tracking System (SITS) tracks the progress of nursing students as they learn and develop proficiency in specific nursing skills. Students use a PDA to view their skill sheets and to retrieve faculty signatures when they have demonstrated proficiency in a skill. This information is uploaded to a server of the College of Nursing and Health Professions that can be accessed through the SITS website. Faculty use the website to approve or deny skill requests which are accompanied by the student's photograph and the faculty member's signature. Using these images faculty members can quickly verify the validity of the request and prevent digital forgeries. Students use the website to view and print their current skill sheets. Faculty and administrative staff use it to view individual, group or aggregate records in order to identify student learning needs. SITS streamlines skill acquisition and helps instructors fine-tune the clinical program. SITS thus helps to ensure that every student receives a quality education

Fran Cornelius (DU-CNHP)

Mary Gallagher-Gordon (DU-CNHP)

SITS2007

The Skills Inventory Tracking System is a nursing skill acquisition management system enabling tracking and revision of skills acquired throughout nursing academics. A PC application having an Internet browser interface and an associated PDA application provide skill retrieval and update capabilities over secure channels interacting with a centralized database according to role-based privilege levels. Individual, group, or aggregate records can be viewed by faculty and administrative staff in order to identify student learning needs. The PDA application is used to record student skills after demonstrated performance. The application captures a digital representation of the evaluating faculty member’s signature and thus allows for subsequent confirmation by the same faculty member.

Clinical Placement Tool

Every term, the nursing students at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) work in hospitals to gain experience in a real-world environment. The Clinical Placement Tool is a dynamic web application that streamlines the process of matching the students in the program with their clinical sites. The placement is subject to a number of site- and student-related constraints and is performed using a set of rules that can be set by the user. Currently, the process is carried out by hand. However, the manual placement of 500 or more students each term is overwhelming, and the results are not optimal.

www.clinicalplacementtool.com

The Clinical Placement Tool (CPT) is a web based, database driven application that automates the assignment of students to clinical sites in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. The process is currently done manually on paper and takes one week to be completed by a handful of employees. The CPT front-end application utilizes PHP web technology in combination with a MySQL database to manipulate and view data. The actual assignment process is completed by a C++ application that runs independently of the front-end.

Fran Cornelius (DU-CNHP)

Mary Gallagher-Gordon (DU-CNHP)

DrexelQuetzal

Quetzal is a scheduling application designed to provide students and faculty with a utility that streamlines the act of choosing and organizing the quarterly schedule for undergraduates at the university level using a GUI drag-and-drop interface.  Quetzal has the following major components.
- A Calendar View, which allows term-by-term planning for course scheduling based on course prerequisites and term of offering. The Calendar View also allows for queries of the university's database for course information such as days and times, and it allows term schedule scenarios to be saved
- A History View, which shows a list of classes previously taken by the student
- A Degree Completion View, which allows comparison of the student’s class history with curricular requirements.

enGen

enGen is a software system for managing the building efficiency of medium to large office buildings.  Modern office buildings supply their managing engineers and/or efficiency contractors with an abundance of building statistics.  Managing this data is complicated and time consuming.  enGen allows users to view these statistics through graphical and text formats that they are accustomed to.  By providing unbiased data processing for these statistics, a building manager may optimize the usage of utilities by maximizing hardware life span and minimizing operational cost. This, in turn, maximizes user profit.

DrexelRadar

Drexel RADAR is and agent-based calendar management tool employing constraint satisfaction techniques. Built using Google's mail and calendar services. Drexel RADAR allows the user to have access to their most important information wherever they have internet access. After a brief setup process on a home machine, the user's RADAR agent will immediately start learning about its owners scheduling preferences. with the ultimate goal being complete automation with no user involvement. These agents handle meeting requests amongst any number of participants, including both RADAR users and regular human participants. The DrexelRADAR system combines leading edge Artificial Intelligence algorithms with a transparency and ease of use that is sure to bolster productivity and lessen the stress of meetings.

William C. Regli

Department of Computer Science

Drexel University

RCCM

Jonathan Awerbuch

Alan Lau

Tein-Min Tan

John Bakuckas

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Drexel University

SeeingEyeShopper

Seeing Eye Shopper (SES) enhances the B.A.S.S. project of 2006 by creating a full shopping experience for blind persons. The project completes the intentions of B.A.S.S. by creating a site that allows blind persons to create shopping lists, and by allowing stores to become accessible to the system. The list creation system allows users to create, edit and retrieve lists that will be loaded on the shopping cart before the user starts to shop. The store management system allows managers to add, edit and remove product entries. The system also allows managers to add information about the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags associated with each product in the store. SES interacts with barcode readers, sensors, and - incorporating Bluetooth audio - with human speech. The program code is written in C#.

Frugalphone

The objective of FrugalPhone is to provide a mobile price comparison service for consumers. Products are identified by the consumer on his/her mobile device by name or UPC code. Information returned to the consumer includes store name, physical location, sale price, and the last time the price was validated for the specified product. GPS-enabled phones also display the distance to the nearest store. The goal of FrugalPhone is to provide the ability to compare product prices anytime and anywhere

Evac-Op

Christopher J. Dugan

Joseph B. Kopena

Robert N. Lass

Duc N. Nguyen
 

William C. Regli

Department of Computer Science

Drexel University