Some Project Ideas
Prof.
Frye: Online faculty voting system; sensor networks
Dr. Spiegel: Genetic algorithms
Dr. Vasko: Operations Research; Ant Colony
optimization
Dr. Rieksts: Cellular encryption; Dynamic
factoradic encryption; Blocks World
Dr. Freihauf:
There are a couple computer programs that I think
would be good to make, and I don't remember which one I told you about.
* The XRD peak finding program? (takes and ascii
file of x and y data points and determines the locations of peaks, then compares
peak locations to a database of peak locations that act as fingerprints for
minerals and other crystalline substances)
* The thermodynamic phase diagram computing
program? (user inputs chemical equations and some other basic parameters,
then computer calculates stability fields based on chemical equilibria)
* Or the user-friendly version of the SUPCRT92
thermodynamic database calculator (that reads from a data file of chemical
properties of minerals at low temperature, and then calculates the chemical
properties at high temperature). (this last one would actually be very, very
useful to the geologic community)
There's another program that would be handy that
I'd like help developing for doing calculations with geophysical data.
Oh! And there's a web site project I'd like to do
that would involve building a website that has a form for users to input data
for a curriculum proposal into specific data fields (title, name, department,
etc.), then assigns the proposal a unique sequential identification number,
and records the data to a database which I could download to make the agendas
for meetings, querrying by the dean, etc.