Oracle 11G Enterprise Edition

For this project, the students installed an Oracle Database on an university department local host server.  This database was used in a course for database management students allowing instructors the ability to manipulate the exiting schema as well as create their own objects.  Through this project the students also learned about the different environments that…

SNORT

An intrusion detection system is a device or software that monitors network traffic for malicious activities or policy violations.  If there is malicious activity detected an output report is sent to a management station.  For this particular project students researched and tested SNORT. SNORT is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system, which…

Syslog/Event Log Server

With this project the student was responsible for configuring audit policies on the host machines.  To do this the student had to turn on Success and Failure auditing for the Audit Logon Events policy, as well as configure the Special Logon/Logoff and Other Logon/Logoff policies.  The student was also required to configure the firewall on…

Lync PC Project

The goals for this project were to build a new desktop, install Microsoft Lync, configure the computer speakers to automatically turn on and off on specific days throughout the week, and to configure the desktop to automatically log on and lock right afterwards.  Specifications that were required:  Windows 7 Professional Edition, an Intel Core 2…

Dual OS Deployment

A university department is an approved testing facility for a regional testing group.  For this particular project the students purchased new hard drives and partitioned them into two separate partitions.  The students then created an image of Windows 7, Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, and accounting software.  A second image contained a network image for…

Indiana Company Scanner Project

The Indiana Company Scanner Project consisted of installing scanning software on over 100 remote locations.  The scanning software is provided by another company and will be used for the locations to scan their receipts.  This project would take at most 7 installations, and approximately 15 minutes per installation.  Overall this project provided the students with…

Not-For-Profit Wireless Network

On this project students set up two wireless networks, one private and one would public. The private network would be used for members and the not-for-profit, meanwhile, the public network would be used as public WiFi for any user, such as when the not-for-profit hosts public events. In order to set up the wireless networks…

Not-For-Profit Education

This project involved working with a not-for-profit designed to show school-aged students the importance of computer skills, measurements, critical thinking, team work, project based learning, engineering, and several other key concepts.  The objective of this project was to teach sixth and seventh graders the basics of a computer. In order to meet this objective a…

Website Redesign

The goal of this project is to redesign a website by updating it to use CSS and taking a business approach to the layout of the design. The second part of this project was to create a database that could store the information that is submitted through the website. Project Student:  Christopher Pipes