ETS Labs: New Services Under Development
This page lists ongoing ETS projects and collaborations with the University Technology Office (UTO). Department Advising Scheduling
ETS Projects
Students may now schedule advising appointments with department advisors online. The advising application provides the student with an easy and efficient way to schedule advising appointments with advisors, with advisor/student email notifications and integrated calendar reminders.
Project Lead: Jeff Carpenter
Scholarship Application Manager
Students may now apply for Fulton School of Engineering Scholarships online. This web based solution provides the student with an easy system to manage multiple scholarship applications and navigate through the many available Fulton scholarships. Academic administrators may also author and manage scholarships online, as well as generate complex reports for consideration by scholarship committees.
Project Lead: Nathan Deneau
Server-On-Demand
A virtual server environment, this model using virtualization software allows us to provide researchers and users with virtual private server hosting, open source research support tools such as Subversion, wiki tools, Metadot portal collaboration tools, blade server technology, system administration management, application support along with 24 x 7 event and performance monitoring.
Also available for windows servers.
Project Lead: Marc Lesure
Fulton Executive Dashboards
Executives use this high-level, graphical representation of data to manage the Fulton School of Engineering. Space allocation, student enrollment, retention, and other key performance indicators are displayed in intuitive, visually stunning charts and graphs. Data is easy to drill-down into and can be easily downloaded and manipulated. Graphs are automatically updated and synchronized with the ASU academic calendar.
Project Lead: Nathan Deneau
Engineering Personnel Actions (EPA) Project for the Deans Office
The EPA Sharepoint Site will aid the Deans Office in controlling and tracking the Personnel Actions for the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering faculty. The site will present a unified, secure and simplified approach to:
- Compile required documents
- Track progress of a Personnel Action
- Control Access to sensitive data
- Allow External Reviewers to review Faculty data and upload their own reviews, in connection with Promotion and Tenure Personnel Actions.
Project Lead: Shaun Usman
Transition sites on Sharepoint 3.0 to Sharepoint 2007
Scope includes 15 - 20 sites. Benefits of the new version include:
- Better integration with applications (Office 2007 Suite) and web browsers
- Enterprise Search (improved Search) through Sharepoint system
- End-users can own and design their own SharePoint Sites for their own needs
- Support for self-site creation, allowing Site Owners to create their own subsites and control their own permissions and SharePoint groups
- Built-in support for new technologies such as Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Feeds
- Supports Anonymous Access (read only)
- My Sites - each user can have their own content on their My Site, including Shared Documents, Document Workspaces, Meeting Workspaces, etc. Plus, they can track their memberships of various sites thorugh their My Site.
Tentative release date is December 2009.
Project Lead: Shaun Usman
1:1 Laptop acquisitions for engineering students
IAFSE has joined with UTO and the downtown campus to offer the 1:1 student laptop purchasing program for engineers. UTO partnered with Dell and Apple to implement the 1:1 concept (one student, one laptop) to make it more attractive for the students to use their own laptops for their school work instead of the remote computer sites. See the UTO 1:1 website for more information.
Project Lead: Steve Ferris
Video conferencing
At Provost Capaldi's request, UTO is researching desktop video conferencing alternatives. ETS is working with the UTO project team to ensure that Engineering's needs are met. Several products are being evaluated to find the best solution for ASU. Contact the project lead for more information.
Project Lead: Steve Ferris or 5-2367
High Capacity Storage for Researchers
The University Technology Office (UTO) and Fulton High Performance Computing Initiative (HPCI) are proud to announce the ASU research storage service. This service is designed to provide affordable, reliable, secure, and large-scale tiered storage to all ASU researchers for day-to-day performance of research work or large-scale archives. Windows, Unix, Linux, and Macintosh clients will be supported. See the HPCI website for more information.
Project Lead: Dan Stanzione
Other UTO Projects
There are other UTO projects underway. See the ASU Labs website for more information.