Applications

The Advisers Calendar is an online application allowing students to schedule meetings with their Engineering Undergraduate advisers, while synchronizing these appointments with the adviser's Zimbra calendar.

The College of Engineering Admission Application is an online application used by MSU students who wish to apply to an engineering major, and/or for engineering students who wish to change their major within the College of Engineering.

DECS supports email, calendar, and contact syncing across all current mobile device platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and Palm devices. For further information, or if you would like assistance setting up an email or calendar account, please contact the DECS Support Office at support@egr.msu.edu or 517-353-8891.

DECS staff worked with campus library personnel to create group meeting "pods" in several areas of the Engineering Library.

After evaluating various calendaring packages, comparing costs and features, DECS found a suitable calendaring package for the college, called Zimbra. It has numerous features, allows us to incorporate unique DECS developed features, and it is affordable. This calendaring package offers access from anywhere in the world, no longer limiting use to within the College of Engineering networks. It is compatible with a much larger number of platforms, provides a good web interface, and the ability to work with many software clients. Development on an additional module allowing scheduling of adviser appointments by students, has also been completed.

The Financial Management Package (FMP) is a web-based application for streamlining university accounting for departments. It has been tailored for Michigan State University to provide account and sub-account transaction tracking; various fiscal reports; payroll tracking for faculty, staff, and graduate students; budgeting; and ledger reconciling. It also has user level permissions to allow department administrators to manage their own users. It can run from any web browser supporting Java.

The Inventory, Sales, and Recycling/Redistribution Application (ISRA) is an online RIA (Rich Internet Application) that DECS developed, and is available across the internet. The system provides departments with the ability to manage and record assets--including the ability to download MSU inventory directly into departmental records, generate reports for all inventory records, and search inventory records with customizable views. ISRA also has reports for tracking inventory, and has the ability to store images of the items.

The MSU Summer Experience Survey is for undergraduate students to inform the Career Center staff of what the students are doing between semesters.  It provides them with the opportunity to say whether they are working or not, and if so, what type of employment, e.g. a co-op for credit, an internship, or a career/skill-based job. The survey also collects information about their experiences within these jobs, different salary rates, and job trends.

The Machine Shop for Engineering Attendance is a website that DECS developed for students to sign in and out of the Engineering Machine Shop. The site gives MSU the ability to track and report attendance numbers, along with recording the purpose for using the Machine Shop, such as doing research under an adviser, or doing a special student organization project (Formula 1, Baja, Solar Car, etc.) There are also several Engineering courses that use the site for this purpose, ME372 Machine Tool Laboratory, ME461 Mechanical Vibrations, and EGR100 Introduction to Engineering Design.

The College of Engineering's Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Action System (RPTAS) is an online application that allows faculty to generate and manage documents for reappointment, promotion, and tenure actions. This form has been in production since August 2010, and was used by a group of designated Engineering faculty members in the 2010 reporting cycle.