COMPUTER SCIENCE

Ecosystem Relationship Manager (O)

Presenter: Jay Hardison

Faculty Project Advisor: G. Jan Wilms

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is an important tool that businesses use to manage the relationships with their customers. However, this can also be a useful tool to implement within the ecosystem of an organization. MI2, or Metals Innovation Initiative, is a startup organization that promotes the research and development of metals in Kentucky and the surrounding states. They use an ecosystem business model, so this application was perfect for them to replace the Excel spreadsheet they were using to keep up with their data. The goal of this application is to be able to collect data of the interactions within the ecosystem and to show MI2 analytics and graphs based on this data in order to make well-informed business decisions. This application can also filter the data and display these graphs, tables, analytics, and other data in Microsoft Teams.

Creating a Website for a Local Business (O)

Presenter: Mohammad Abuhantash

Faculty Project Advisor: G. Jan Wilms

This project involved the creation of a website for a local salon business here in Jackson that doesn’t have much online presence other than a Facebook page. The website will display the services offered by the salon, as well as the ability to make an appointment with a licensed aesthetician. This website will be constructed using HTML and CSS and incorporate elements of JavaScript for server-side scripting.

App for Poplar Heights Baptist Church (O)

Presenter: Isaac Johnson

Faculty Project Advisor: G. Jan Wilms

The Poplar Heights Baptist Church staff has been looking for a more efficient way to communicate with their members and guests. They currently have to send mass emails to their members and guests and give announcements during their services. In order to fix this need, I have created an app that will allow members and guests alike to download it through the Apple app store to not only find any information that they are looking for, but also give them push notifications about new events/ministries or changes to other events. n

Maximizing Basketball Shooting Accuracy (P)

Presenter: Philip J. Becker

Faculty Project Advisor: Don Van

Basketball is a universal sport that is played and enjoyed by people all around the world. However, everyone has varying techniques for how they play the game, which in turn greatly affects and impacts their performance. The aim of this experiment was to maximize the accuracy of successfully shooting a basketball and analyzing various factors that contribute to shooting accuracy: shoe type, number of steps taken before the shot, shooting stance, shooting form, the type of basketball being used, clothing being worn, and whether an audience is present. The Design of Experiment (DOE) statistical method is used to measure the effects of these variables by completing three trials of eight runs with all shots being taken from the free throw line. This experiment will conclude the ideal and most important factors for basketball shooting accuracy by using the 16th fractional factorial design method.