2. Engineering Projects in Community Service 11 December 2007

3. Foreword Team members Project Description/Problems Goals Solution Setbacks Future Recommendations

4. 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

5. EPICS About our Client Clients Rosalina Aranda Jeff Wright Valerie Leppert Castle Science and Technology Center Bloodsource Mining and Mineral Museum Bobcat Radio Merced office of education AWP Animal Shelter Rock Climbing Wall Wetlands Project EPICS

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Advertisements Posters and Flyers describing SLP and EPICS Brochure

9. Advertisements

10. Presentation Flyers

11. 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

12. Information Technology Team What we proposed 1.To Design a Website 2.To create a registration site What we accomplished 1.Plone/Zope and Python Skills 2.Improved Website 3.Began registration site

13. Old Service Learning Website

14. Problems Old Service Learning Website –Difficulty in navigation –Unappealing –Disorganized –Unable to find the correct links.

15. New Website More appealing Easier to navigate Able to customize different features

16. 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.

17. Sub-team #4 IT 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.

18. Future Recommendations More ideas to improve the information system. Recruitment –Specifically upper division students majoring in CSE

19. Engineering Projects in Community Service