Destination Survey
A Destination Survey was developed by DECS in coordination with the College of Engineering Career Services Office and the College of Business. The survey gathers exit and career path information from graduating students. It allows department career coordinators easy access to exit data, career placement information, and various statistics. Several other departments on campus are also using this survey. The application has a feature that does an excellent job demonstrating how well students are obtaining employment from companies all over the United States and the world.
Scanners
Several scanners are available to en
Cadence
Cadence provides a number of packages for integrated circuit design and analysis and PCB design.
Cadence provides a number of packages for integrated circuit design and analysis and PCB design.
GIMS
The Graduate Information Management System is used by the College of Engineering to acquire data on prospective graduate students. This year DECS worked closely with graduate school advisors and secretaries to enhance the software to fit their needs. Some of the enhancements during the last year include a more robust reporting tool, the ability to scan documents directly to the database, color coding, and quick application filters.
Lobby Maps
An interactive, touch-screen application that was developed by DECS. This application is a location/mapping tool that assists visitors in finding rooms and personnel throughout the building. Two kiosks were installed--one in the Engineering Lobby and the other at the North Entrance. Developing this internally not only saved money, but has also allowed the College of Engineering to have a very customizable application that can provide much more than the current products on the market.
Faculty Activity Information System (FAIS)
SquirrelMail
As an added benefit to the mail server upgrade, the performance of Squirrel Mail--now Flying Squirrel Mail (the web client software currently available in Engineering), has improved significantly.
Database Server Replication
DECS is undertaking a project to provide replicated database servers. This means data stored in any of the many database at DECS, such as FMP or GIMS, will be safe from server failure and replicated realtime, so data will not be lost--even if less than a second old! This will complement the existing nightly full backups of data that are also stored for safekeeping.