I've asked this to some of my friends and co-workers, and I found out a lot of interesting things from them. Anyone care to share theirs? I'll start off with mine:
Course: IT
Group: 4 people
Year: 2008
Thesis topic: A Generic Community Association Portal. Research on common processes across Homeowner's Associations and automating them. It was sort of an ERP system for Homeowners Associations that could be used by commercial buildings as well.
JIRA business model (SaaS-hosted or downloadable). Features included the filing of permits and requests, reserving amenities, simple billing for association dues, association announcement board with sms/email notifications and visitor management. We built the prototype in Java (JSP + Resin + MySQL).
Didn't receive high grades with it, since at that time as college students, we couldn't properly defend ourselves when a professor from the panel pointed out that our system could be replaced with someone wrangling Excel sheets in a Yahoo Group.
In the end we got a passing grade just for the high amount of domain research on problems encountered when operating a large Homeowner's Association.
Course: IT
Group: 4 people
Year: 2008
Thesis topic: A Generic Community Association Portal. Research on common processes across Homeowner's Associations and automating them. It was sort of an ERP system for Homeowners Associations that could be used by commercial buildings as well.
JIRA business model (SaaS-hosted or downloadable). Features included the filing of permits and requests, reserving amenities, simple billing for association dues, association announcement board with sms/email notifications and visitor management. We built the prototype in Java (JSP + Resin + MySQL).
Didn't receive high grades with it, since at that time as college students, we couldn't properly defend ourselves when a professor from the panel pointed out that our system could be replaced with someone wrangling Excel sheets in a Yahoo Group.
In the end we got a passing grade just for the high amount of domain research on problems encountered when operating a large Homeowner's Association.