Daniel Farkas

Choosing group projects for advanced systems courses

This paper addresses the selection of projects for advanced information systems and software engineering courses and proposes criteria for group projects which gives students genuine real-world experience in the classroom. A curriculum for an advanced systems workshop is presented and a sample project with group interdependence and its prototyping under UNIX is described.

Internationalizing the curriculum: Developing travel courses for global awareness

In most colleges and universities, study abroad focuses on students and curriculum in business, foreign language studies and the natural sciences. In todaypsilas global economy, it is necessary for engineering and technology students to also have significant international experiences. In addition to exposing students to the broad issues of globalization, study abroad is both a career hedge against outsourcing and a response to internationalization requirements of accrediting bodies such as ABET. This paper will discuss the issues involved in developing and offering international experience courses; determining curricula and content; developing the computing and technology components of the courses; and developing the field experience including the logistics of travel. The paper will describe two courses: an undergraduate course on computer and network security with travel to London and Paris and a graduate course on offshore outsourcing with travel to India.

Use of Applet and Servlet Communication Technique to Administer Online Examinations

Internet and Java technology have developed enormously in recent years. These dramatic developments have provided opportunities and challenges in all fields, particularly in the field of education. What we could not imagine doing just a couple years back has been made possible by these technologies. This short paper illustrates one such example. The example we will discuss is an examination system that a student takes online. When done, the system displays his/her score, and stores the name of the student and his/her score in a file on the server. By clicking another button the students can see answers to all the questions. The way we have done, all the processing is done on the client side and then the result and the name are sent to the server. The server stores the name and score of the student in a file on the server. A Java applet does the client side computation and a Java Servlet does the processing on the server side. The paper illustrates the power of applet servlet communication.