Applications

The "My Account" (Web Services) website makes it easy to manage features of your engineering account. Here, users can edit spam whitelist and blacklist, activate new EGR NetIds over the web from anywhere and change their passwords as well as their Unix shell. Other features included are: viewing quota usage, controlling the spam filter and setting e-mail forwarding and e-mail auto responder.

Over the past year, all processes involved in the creation and management of engineering user accounts have been put to the test repeatedly since early conception and development. Accounts and all their resources are more tightly coupled with an individual account. Account owners have an increase in information pertaining to their account, such as easier management and tracking of their resource usage and overall management of the account. Migration to the new system provides a faster response for users, better syncing and management of accounts, and more account information available to the user.

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 gone through many updates and modifications based on faculty and staff feedback since it launched a few years ago. One of the modifications provides department supervisors the ability to upload corresponding documents (the department report, research expenditures report, etc.) for all faculty candidates. This feature will be used starting with the 2012 P&T review process. The most recent addition included a section for the college level review committee to review candidate documents, upload the committee reports, execute straw-poll voting, etc.—all the functionality and tools needed to conduct committee actions online.

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.

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 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 Research Training Tracking System (RTTS) was developed by The Graduate School, the College of Engineering, and the Division of Engineering Computing Services (DECS). This online application features the ability to enter and edit Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) completed training data and generate reports.