Cooperative Education

A course that teaches through REAL experiences.

 

Sample Projects

• Update the design and content of a website, gather more requirement information from users, maintain current information updates, make sure existing links still work and add new links.
• Using Microsoft Access, create a customized database to store all the IT Inventory and log files to optimize, manage, and organize the IT department system.
• Project will be based on the Air Force Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC). This is a configuration that is implemented throughout the Air Force and contains various applications and policy settings. Create a document containing procedures on applying this configuration to desktops and laptops which will be submitted at the end of the semester. Record day to day problems and solutions regarding the SDC which will also be submitted in a document at the end of the semester.
• Rebuild a network's infrastructure from the ground up. Repair almost a decade of bad installation and zero documentation. Replace 30 3500 Cisco Switches with 3750 Cisco Switches, 2 4006 Layer 3 Cisco Switches with 6509 Layer 3 Cisco Switches, reinstall the backbone connections with 6 Strand Fiber, re-subnet 8 Class C Networks, Re-Configure over 20 VLANs for different purposes, and rebuild all wiring racks from the ground up.
• Begin a file server migration project. It will consist of migrating about 60 file servers and 10000 users data to new hardware. Printers and applications will be migrated as well. Use file server migration tool to migrate data from one server to another.
• Design a website for a housing inspection business. The website will include a page about inspector’s credentials and experience, location and contact information, services offered.
• Create a database for an auto business. The database would contain customer information such as contact info. (Name, address, phone numbers), vehicle information (year, make and model of vehicle) and vehicle history (dates of service, parts repaired/replaced). The database will be in Access.
• Design an Access database that keeps track of the daily tasks of employees. The current system is done by using Word Document software and then submitting that document to the project lead managers via email. The new database will keep track of the daily tasks, store weekly reports, and other functions that allows for an overall easier experience of record keeping and submissions.
• Work with a supervisor to devise a system allowing Front Line Agents to close more tickets. This project will improve response time to computer issues. This will also allow the customer to be more productive in work by not having to wait for a tech to respond. Come up with different techniques and look into different programs that will be more productive and helpful.
• Implementation of a new networked help desk system. This will include the following:
  1. Setting up a new server, networking it and patching it in preparation.
  2. Setting up a database server, patching, networking and creating the associated database that the helpdesk server will talk to.
  3. Interfacing with the vendor during the installation and configuration phase of the helpdesk software
  4. The software and database will be linked to the member directory of the Novell user database.
  5. Initial Categories and reporting criteria will be created.
  6. The system will then go into testing and any changes will be made before the system will go live.
  7. Users that will enter helpdesk calls will be trained and then the system will go live.
  8. Backups of all relevant databases and systems will be implemented for disaster recovery.
• The store has recently acquired a new computer based sales system and administrative system. Many people in the store have little or no computer training. Devise a training plan, training materials and run training for all new employees and current staff to acclimate them to these new systems.
• Design a database for church members and the various needs of each member. It will be very involved and have a lot of detail. It will contain members’ contact information and also details on their needs. It will also contain information on the church various services offered to meet those needs.
• Build a database that combines 5 existing and 2 new databases to allow access to all related information to be accessed from one location.
• This project is for a home based business that sells and distributes a product. Products and collectables are part of the inventory. Design and implement a database that would document inventory, customer information, price information, current status of stock that would track incoming and outgoing product lines, using an Access Database.
• Using an employer’s website, perform weekly updates for this website. This website contains an online catalog, in which other agencies and industries can order products listed. I will be adding new product information to this site. There is a compact CD that has all products listed. This CD will be re-released in a new format for which I will be responsible.
• Database Conversion for the client database moving and validating data from an existing Microsoft Access database to the database where our client time and billing resides, which has recently been upgraded allow more inclusion of data, making the existing Access database irrelevant after the conversion is done, Benefits will be efficiency and the elimination of redundant information on the server.