Case Study: SPAR (Student Profile and Assessment Record)

Client Overview
The IEEE (Eye-triple-E) is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries. The full name is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., although the organization is most popularly known and referred to by the letters I-E-E-E. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others.

Client Needs
IEEE had two needs. The first was to provide engineering students with a means for recording, tracking and analyzing their educational activities through the life of their degree program. The system was to serve to prepare students for the Career Asset Management system also offered by IEEE. It would also provide students with a ready-made resume upon graduation.

The second need was to gather evaluations of the engineering programs being offered by various universities to determine if the universities are meeting curriculum goals and should therefore continue to qualify for accreditation.

The Solution
A web database was required. The system had to support all browsers and operating systems. The system was deployed on a Microsoft Internet Information server hosting an ASP application talking to an Oracle database.

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