Meet.me
Lead Student Name
Oleksandr Hendrik
Executive Summary
Regular team meetings are at the core of any successful project because they allow for even work distribution and effective idea sharing, especially in any engineering field, where teamwork is an essential skill. When students are assigned a new group project, it is often an incredibly painful process of figuring out each other’s class schedule, extracurricular activities, and leisure time, with the required time growing almost exponentially as the number of people in a group increases. The difficulty of the process is also frequently amplified by social anxiety and lack of overall interest in participation. Ultimately, it leads to poor team cohesion and communication, and can have detrimental effects on the final outcome of the project.
We have had a similar experience last semester while taking SE 300, Software Engineering Practices, and having to overcome that sparked the idea for Meet.me. After taking roughly thirty minutes and over a week of refinement to figure out the meeting schedule, it has occurred to us that we can solve the exact issue we are having. In half a year, Meet.me v1.2 became a computer/web tool designed for ERAU students to effortlessly organize team meetings and arrange group activities with no need for stress and confusion.
The current prototype of Meet.me is a standalone Java application with a calendar interface designed to parse ERAU-specific student schedules (as provided on Campus Solutions) in the PDF format. During the parsing process, the algorithm seeks out relevant course information within the file and displays them on the weekly view. The student may add custom events such as extracurricular activities, after which the schedule is uploaded to a database to be synchronized with the other users. Fast forward a couple technical steps, and the individual schedules of all users are shown and labeled on the weekly view, along with an experimental feature which displays suggested meeting times based on the specified meeting length.
There is a lot of potential for further development, and the ease-of-use would be greatly improved and streamlined if Meet.me was to be integrated within the ‘Tools’ section of ERNIE. That would eliminate the need for most of the user-performed tasks of the current version such as manual selection of the PDF schedule file.
While it is not a complete game-changer, Meet.me is a great quality-of-life improvement for the students not only here in Daytona Beach, but could be used at the Prescott campus as well due to the flexibility of the algorithm. We strongly believe that our project is a perfect opportunity for Embry-Riddle to showcase its commitment to technological integration in the learning process and improve the group work experience for its students.
Meet.me
Regular team meetings are at the core of any successful project because they allow for even work distribution and effective idea sharing, especially in any engineering field, where teamwork is an essential skill. When students are assigned a new group project, it is often an incredibly painful process of figuring out each other’s class schedule, extracurricular activities, and leisure time, with the required time growing almost exponentially as the number of people in a group increases. The difficulty of the process is also frequently amplified by social anxiety and lack of overall interest in participation. Ultimately, it leads to poor team cohesion and communication, and can have detrimental effects on the final outcome of the project.
We have had a similar experience last semester while taking SE 300, Software Engineering Practices, and having to overcome that sparked the idea for Meet.me. After taking roughly thirty minutes and over a week of refinement to figure out the meeting schedule, it has occurred to us that we can solve the exact issue we are having. In half a year, Meet.me v1.2 became a computer/web tool designed for ERAU students to effortlessly organize team meetings and arrange group activities with no need for stress and confusion.
The current prototype of Meet.me is a standalone Java application with a calendar interface designed to parse ERAU-specific student schedules (as provided on Campus Solutions) in the PDF format. During the parsing process, the algorithm seeks out relevant course information within the file and displays them on the weekly view. The student may add custom events such as extracurricular activities, after which the schedule is uploaded to a database to be synchronized with the other users. Fast forward a couple technical steps, and the individual schedules of all users are shown and labeled on the weekly view, along with an experimental feature which displays suggested meeting times based on the specified meeting length.
There is a lot of potential for further development, and the ease-of-use would be greatly improved and streamlined if Meet.me was to be integrated within the ‘Tools’ section of ERNIE. That would eliminate the need for most of the user-performed tasks of the current version such as manual selection of the PDF schedule file.
While it is not a complete game-changer, Meet.me is a great quality-of-life improvement for the students not only here in Daytona Beach, but could be used at the Prescott campus as well due to the flexibility of the algorithm. We strongly believe that our project is a perfect opportunity for Embry-Riddle to showcase its commitment to technological integration in the learning process and improve the group work experience for its students.