Building Geo Apps for a Smarter Campus Community — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Building Geo Apps for a Smarter Campus Community

Name: Richard Ward
Major: Classical Archaeology
Hometown: Tinley Park, IL
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Daisy Bower
Major: Physics
Hometown: Taylor Ridge, IL
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Nicholas Bussian
Major: Environmental Science
Hometown: Lena, IL
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Bryan Collins
Major: Geography and Earth Science
Hometown: Bettendorf, IA
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Matthew Freer
Major: Geography and Earth Science
Hometown: Naperville, IL
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Ryan Maeder
Major: Geography and Earth Science
Hometown: Dubuque, IA
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Michael Omohundro
Major: Geography and Earth Science
Hometown: Lake Forest, IL
Faculty Sponsor: Wenjie Sun
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Abstract

The Applied GIS (Geographic Information Science) Projects Class was made aware of two potential needs for certain services on campus: reporting maintenance issues on campus, and the student concern of not being aware of when the security shuttle would be running to certain stops. The class looked at these issues from a geospatial standpoint and thought we could use our recently acquired GIS techniques, particularly building Geo Apps to help collect and share the desired data and information with the target audience in a more convenient way. Our class decided to attempt to help with these issues by applying GIS solutions and app creation techniques to facilitate the submission and tracking of maintenance issues and display near-real-time information regarding the Shuttle’s current position, available seats, and anticipated route.

With the maintenance app, it transformed the current deeply-buried, web-based maintenance request into an app (both web and mobile) that allows users to input their location (indoor or outdoor) and basic information regarding their maintenance request through a computer or a mobile device. Then a web app is created to share these requests with maintenance and it also allows edits of request status by maintenance.

In regards to the Shuttle app, we are designing a mobile app that allows the Shuttle drivers to input the information listed above and then display it on a map-viewer app that any passenger can download and use to get updated information regarding arrival times and space available on the incoming shuttle.

These projects are both still in progress, but we hope to be able to publish these apps by the end of this semester after a few trial runs are performed. We feel honored to be able to serve and benefit our college community by applying our teachings to a real world setting. To that end, we are excited to share the “fruits” of our applied learning with the community at this event.

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