Engineering Students Create O-H-I-O App

A screen capture from the O-H-I-O iPhone appStudents in the College of Engineering have helped create a free iPhone application that will allow users to easily share their "O-H-I-O" photos.

The app was created by computer science students working with Ohio State's New Media unit to help promote the university’s famous cheer. Phil Evers and Phil Vallera in computer science and engineering and Matt O'Brien in computer and information science took on the project late last year for their capstone class, Computer Science Engineering 758, which puts Ohio State engineering students on high-tech industry and university projects.

The course was taught by senior lecturer Tom Bihari. After the class finished, Evers worked with Ohio State on a freelance basis to complete the project.

“This was a great opportunity to work on a real-world project while still in school,” said Evers, who graduated in December and is seeking a software engineering position in the aerospace industry. “To be able to work with a client through the different phases of software development from requirements gathering and design to implementation and testing was very beneficial.”

The "O-H-I-O!" app can be downloaded from Ohio State’s O-H-I-O Web site, or from iTunes. The app allows users to:

• asily share O-H-I-O photos taken with an iPhone camera or from the iPhoto library.


• Automatically tag O-H-I-O photos with GPS location and more.


• View any of the 4,000+ O-H-I-O photos, quickly browse-able by category.

• See the earliest known O-H-I-O photo.
  
  Since the O-H-I-O site launched in 2007, students, alumni, fans, faculty and staff have contributed more than 4,500 photos from around the world.
  
  Ohio State also offers a smartphone-ready mobile site, m.osu.edu. The site combines the best of osu.edu — news, events, and features — with information specifically for smartphone users. It adapts to user location to offer information such as directions; nearest wireless availability, dining hall and bus stops; and real-time bus information. Read more about the mobile site.