Senior Projects 2021
Alexandra Fernandez and Isabelle Rivera
Client: Romina Polo, Strategic Projects Director
The goal of the Code/Art LEADHers project is to create an iOS application for young female students who are a part of Code/Art’s Future Tech LeadHERS program. Code/Art is a nonprofit organization aimed at getting more girls into the computer science field. Hence, this application, along with the database and administrative dashboard, is aimed to help keep female students engaged in Computer Science in the middle school and high school years. This application includes account creation and login where a student will be able to view events and internships that are being hosted by Code/Art or one of their partners. The administrative dashboard will be accessed only on a desktop or laptop where admins can create, modify, or delete these events and internships. In addition, they can easily remove, modify, or create user or admin accounts. Thus, this project provides security and ease of use to its users and its administrators.
Julia Hart and Illiyana Rivera
A brand book creator
Client: Wayne Pelletier, Resonant Pixel Co.
The goal of this project is to simplify the process of creating a cohesive brand theme
for all types of businesses. We are creating an engine for this branding tool. We
aim to create a more affordable way to create and manage brands. This web application
can be used by small businesses, brand managers, designers and any other possible
users this application can be useful for. There will be a user friendly web application
that allows a customer to create a log in to use the site. Once a member, they will
also establish their subscription rate to use the features of the application. The
features will include: a space for the user to upload their logo, the ability to choose
from fonts, colors, icons, and other assets, and finally generate a template for their
business based on their previous selections.
Luke Alexander and Victoria Matos
Title of project: The Serina Ceramics Website
Client: Serina Addona, Owner of Serina Ceramics
Serina Ceramics is a new small business that sells small-batch handmade goods, particularly
clay polymer earrings. In the past, business has been conducted through Instagram
and Venmo. By the creation of a website, Serina Ceramics will have a single, easy-to-access
location for customers to create accounts, peruse past and present products, have
questions answered, and, most importantly, purchase products. The website will also
have administrative capabilities so Serina can add, remove, and edit the inventory
on the website.
Matthew Kinloch and Patrick Auth
Vehicle Record Management App
Clients: Jules Babayemi and Tyler Spellen
For our senior project, we have developed two identical applications on two different
platforms (Android and Microsoft PowerApps) that manage records of an inventory of
vehicles. The applications allow the technicians responsible for the upkeep of the
vehicles to edit, view, and create new records on the vehicles themselves (make, model,
mileage, etc.) and the maintenance done on them (oil changes, engine checks, etc.),
from both out in the field and in the office. The applications also send alerts to
the technicians if any “surprise” maintenance needs to be done on the vehicles (flat
tires, dead battery, etc.). To store the records, we developed an Azure SQL Database
and an Azure PHP-based Web Service, both of which communicate with the Android and
PowerApps applications.
Our project provides our clients with two main benefits: 1) Migrating a long-standing
paper trail of documents to a mobile-based system and 2) Allowing our clients to weigh
the benefits of integrating into their system mobile applications with more customization
options but more overhead versus web-based applications with less customization but
less overhead.
Andrew Fallon and Jeff Umanzor
ZehnTek Customer Rewards Program
Client: ZehnTek
We are creating a customer rewards program for ZehnTek, a small but expanding ecommerce
company that specializes in computer hardware. Before our system, their rewards program
was administered manually by a single employee, who would approve all requests to
redeem funds and individually send out rewards update emails every month. As they
have grown larger and larger, this has become impractical, and our system will allow
them to continue to grow and make their technological underpinnings more scalable.
Once our system is in place, users will have a greatly improved experience on the
website, and the backend will automatically keep track of rewards funds and recent
purchases. The rewards emails to customers will be automated through the program,
and the rewards database will be fully integrated with the company’s larger database
system. The system will give the company the same level of granular control over rewards
accounts, while maintaining those accounts as a separate entity from their corporate
accounts on ZehnTek’s main website.
Ian Gifford and Akinola Maja
Sticky Bot Simulation and App
Client:Team Clean Blood, Loyola Engineering Team
Our project is to complete an app and a physics simulation for Team Clean Blood. They
are currently researching and developing cancer detection systems, and one such system
they are calling Sticky Bots. In order to aid in both the research and presentation
of these Sticky Bots, we are creating a realistic physics simulation of a human bloodstream
containing Sticky Bots as well as circulating tumor cells. The simulation will allow
them to experiment with the variables and constrains of the Sticky Bots and receive
data on how their changes affect their performance, as well as create high-quality
renders of the simulation to be presented as a proof-of-concept for presentations
and speeches. The app that we will be creating will be a data viewing, filtering,
and organizing app that the client is able to upload files to, and view the data in
those files. The future use for the app will be for the client to upload data from
their cancer detection devices.
Jack Cannon and Nicholas Pierce-Ptak
WLOY Scheduler & Roku App
Client: John Devecka, Operations Manager WLOY (Loyola Radio)
Our project provides a web interface for WLOY employees to dynamically schedule visual
content to be played along with their audio broadcast. Student DJ’s can now upload
their creations and schedule their shows in just a few clicks. To provide the quality
and reliability expected of a 24/7 broadcast, the scheduler also provides users with
tools to make last minute changes and ensure that every second of their show is scheduled.
In addition, the project introduces a new way for the Loyola community to enjoy their
campus radio station. Built to replace the obsolete campus cable TV channel, listeners
will now enjoy a live feed of WLOY’s broadcast media from anywhere with an Internet
connection. The site also provides an endpoint for a future Roku application.
Austin Pierce-Ptak and Liam Creamer
Mindbench
Client: Mindgrub
Mindbench is an internal website created to assist Mindgrub in their allocation of
workers availability and projects that need work done. Those with available time to
give make a post with their availability while those with projects needing more man-hours
make a request. It is then that those users reach out to one another externally. Functionality
of this product includes filtering by skills, company, and job role. The intent of
the system is to make more effective use of employee’s time and maximize efficiency
within the company’s projects.
Kaytin Matrangola and Conor O'Brien
Client: Praxis Engineering
Our client, Praxis Engineering, produces a tool that collects information broadcast
from network access points. The tool records beacon frames and probe responses from
access points, along with the tool’s current GPS coordinates. Many networks within
the packet captures offer multiple APs. Commonly in household WiFi networks, one AP
provides coverage in the 2.4 Ghz band and another in the 5Ghz band. Similarly, many
networks consist of extenders or mesh routers. In the packet captures collected by
the tool, APs that form a network still advertise themselves to client devices as
independent, but commonly share certain parameters. Our project seeks to create a
website providing grouping analysis for users of the tool to upload packet captures
to. Our grouping tool analyzes the packets and APs within the capture, while attempting
to group seemingly independent access points together into networks. Each network
grouping that our project finds has justifications appended justifying why the access
points comprise a network. Users will then be able to download the grouped networks
and justifications in both JSON and CSV file formats.
Benjamin Pazienza and Derek Morales
Healytics
This capstone project will build a system that will scan genetic information on pancreatic
cancer patients to identify what other diseases and conditions they might be predisposed
to. Data will be provided via PDF files that contain patient genetic allele information
derived from DNA analysis. This capstone project will interpret the raw allele information
and compare it to known mutations that are linked to various health conditions and
genetic predisposition to various disease. Three areas of focus will be the data validation,
statistical analysis based on confidence levels and if time permitting, a machine
learning model mechanism to analyze findings could be crafted.
Alexander Khaledan and Jordan Hettleman
Huon D’Auvergne Digital Archive
Clients: Stephen McCormick - Lead investigator for Padua and the Barbieri fragment
editions, TEI development. Leslie Morgan - Lead investigator for Berlin and Turin
editions, general lead for project development and management, TEI development.
The Huon D’Auvergne Digital Archive is a collaborative scholarly project that presents
for the first time to a modern reading audience the Franco-Italian Huon D'Auvergne
romance epic. Our project was to work on version 3.0 of the website. This included
a complete overhaul of the website into a React framework, adding a collaborative
annotation element to the entirety of the translation for fellow scholars, and lastly
an administration portal for permitted users to manage the incoming postings.
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