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M.I.M.S. Final Project

    
  During their final semester, SIMS Master's students are required to do a substantive final project. This culminating project is an integrative, challenging piece of work intended to give students an opportunity to use their experiences in the classroom and the workplace to create a useful system or solve an important problem in cooperation with other students in the program.

Examples of acceptable projects include:

  • the design and implementation of an information system, product, or service;
  • the design of a substantive information policy for an organization or public body;
  • the evaluation of and (specific, detailed, substantive) recommendations for revision of an existing information system, product, or service.

The normal expectation is that each project will include:

  • Needs assessment and/or statement of a problem
  • An analysis of goals, requirements, and objectives
  • Constraints
  • Analysis of existing systems, programs, and/or policies
  • Design of a proposed system, program, and/or policies
  • Implementation: minimally, an implementation plan, including detailed procedures, schedule, and resources; preferably a prototype implementation;
  • Evaluation: minimally, an evaluation plan, including methods, schedule, and resources; preferably a prototype evaluation

Deliverables

  • A report that covers the above elements.
  • A presentation to the larger SIMS community.
In addition, when appropriate:
  • a working prototype
  • user and system documentation.
Additional deliverables appropriate to the project will be negotiated by the students and the faculty member in charge.

Groups

Projects will normally be the work of teams of 2 to 4 students. Individual projects will be deemed appropriate only under exceptional circumstances.

Selected Final Projects

The following is a selection of final projects that have been completed in recent years:

Biosphere Data Project

Gotcha

Human Saga

Interactive Library Interface for Database Selection

i-select

 

 

 

 

 

see also

Academics > Applying to SIMS

 
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