Each year the IEEE Region 5 Organization hosts a robotics competition at their annual conference. The nature of the competition changes each year. Dr. Engel (ECE) and Dr. Weinberg (CS) coach a multidisciplinary team to design, build, and test a robot entry to compete each year. This years competition will be held in Kansas City in April.

SIUE School of Dental Medicine would like examination software that will dynamically generate tests for dental students for evaluation as well as practice. Exam questions will contain cases with images and possibly video. The exam will also have a clock to control the length of time for the exam. Throughout the test, the test taker will be informed of the time remaining as well as the number of questions remaining. In addition to generating dynamic tests, the software will also calculate grades, store results, and mark questions for later review. Other desirable features include question scrambling, scroll function (when a question does not fit on a single screen), immediate grade calculation, etc.

To create mapping software that, at a minimum, will recognize the location of a moving object in the Engineering Building atrium based on sensor data. The sensors will be placed as specified by the team with assistance from the client. The end result will be a simulated indoor "GPS" with a GUI interface showing the location of the object on a map. The hardware aspects of the project including setting up the sensors and data transmission from the sensor to the object will be handled entirely by the client.

Information about how Autonomous Systems are interconnected is stored at BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing tables, are all in text format. There are several public "looking glass" servers that publish the routing tables for the Internet core formed by those tier-1 core routers free of charge every day. However, the BGP routing tables contain just lists of ASs that represent the way the Internet cores are interconnected, but only in the text format. An integrated system which downloads the BGP routing tables from multiple looking glass servers, stores the BGP routing tables in a database that allows efficient storing of them, and visualizes the Internet connectivity by graphics based on the BGP routing tables. The system will come with some fringe functions, such as double-clicking an AS-to-AS link in the output visualization would contact Internet naming-service servers, such as WHOIS servers, to resolve the AS Number into actual carrier's name (such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, UUNET, and Colorado-Super Net, etc).

Experiential education comprises over 30% of contemporary pharmacy curriculums. Students are matched with preceptors in different areas of practice to complete experiences that range from 1 week to 5 weeks. To accomplish this curricular endeavor nearly 900 student placements must be made annually at SIUE. The School of Pharmacy is proposing a project to develop software that would match students with preceptors in a manner that fulfills curricular requirements. The system would need to allow for the maintenance of a faculty and non-faculty preceptor database that includes practice specialty, geographic location and availability for precepting based on defined calendar dates. Prior to the match the software must allow students to rank preceptor preferences. A minimum of 3 preferential rankings is suggested for each rotation the student is required to complete. A component that allows geographic preference as a default if the student cannot be matched with the preferences is also desirable. Subsequent to entry of preferences by students a report that details their choices would be needed. After the electronic match a summary report for faculty will be needed as well as reports for students indicating their assignments and a report for individual preceptors indicating students assigned.