August 18, 2020
K-State Students Ask for Projects to Develop Software
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Dr. Nathan Bean, Computer Science instructor, is asking for help to identify software projects his students and classes can develop. The projects will be developed in a two-course progression over the academic year (fall and spring). The request is ongoing as he needs new projects each fall.
The projects should be software development projects. Examples include building a desktop, web, or mobile application. Bean says, "Web applications need to be a bit more involved than just a website – usually an application you would log into, and upload/download some kind of data from."
Some examples of prior projects:
• A Windows-based inventory tracking system for the Kansas Breeding Unit to replace a paper system they had previously used
• A number of mobile apps for agricultural researchers that involve taking pictures of a crop, and predicting the yields based on processing the images
• A mobile app for a Human Ecology research group that interacts with young adults, providing them interactive quizzes and a feed of targeted, research-based, relationship advice
• A mobile app for crowd-based ecological data gathering. It would use the phone’s camera to analyze a chemical test strip dipped in a river, and record the resulting value, as well as the GPS location, in a central database
Send your questions to Nathan Bean, nhbean@ksu.edu.