Mr. Don Anderson and Mr. Rick Klein from Facilities Management have asked us to develop a web-based interface to access their Microsoft access database. The Database contains information on area usage at four separate facilities. The interface will allow a limited number of users with access to edit database and all users read-only access to run queries. Users with access to edit the database will be able to add/delete information and the system will keep track of changes and who changed them.

The purpose of our project is to provide an advantage to a manufacturing facility with respect to competitors that would allow its clients to undertake a detailed follow-up of the status of their purchase or manufacture orders. This also allows the custoemrs to better manage their time and activities. Our client is Professor Cem Karacal from department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville).

FreeShell is an expert system shell developed for Dr. Yu. Expert Systems are software equivalents to human experts; they both provide focused feedback to users. FreeShell replaces the current system, ExsysCORVID, as a teaching tool for SIUE's Expert Systems class. FreeShell is free of bugs and free of charge.

Dr. Susan Wiediger and her colleagues are compiling a pattern language for chemical education. The purpose of the Pattel Project is to design a system to store this pattern language and allow access to it via a web-based interface. The system will allow for Dr. Wiediger and her colleagues to view and manipulate the pattern language from any PC. The general public will also be allowed to view the pattern language, and construct subsets of patterns to solve their specific problems.

The purpose of this project is to give the current robot Taz an alternative way of localizing that will allow it to navigate through high traffic, as well as dynamic areas. The target area for this project is the atrium in the Engineering Building.

M.O.R.G., the Mobile Optical Robotics Group has been requested to design, build, and program a mobile autonomous robot to compete in the IEEE Region 5 2004 Annual Technical Conference Robotics Contest on April 2-4, 2004. The group will document their progress in creating a mobile, optical robot specifically designed for maneuvering around a designated path. The goal is to complete the path in a shorter time than the other teams' robots.

The goal of the Ambulance Chasers is to implement a PDA system to the Injury Tracking System developed by a previous senior project group. This system will fulfill the SIUE Department of Intercollegiate Athletics desires for a system that can provide "on-the-spot" updates as soon as an athlete is injured in collegiate competition as well as completing the unfulfilled requirements of the previous team's project. All this will provide the framework for a future system of wireless technology connecting to a centralized database, providing a state of the art system unrivaled in college athletics.