New Football App, Computer-Industry Projects Take Stage at Thursday Showcase
Conceptual images on an iPhone illustrate a Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation project in which engineering students are working with students from the design department in the College of Art to develop a mobile application, iShoe, that would allow users to better follow the football Buckeyes. When the Buckeyes take the field this fall, you might be able to see replays, check the scores of other Big Ten teams and look up player stats, all from your seat inside the ’Shoe or at your tailgate outside the stadium.
College of Engineering students are working with students from other colleges as well as the Department of Athletics to develop iShoe, an iPhone app for fans to keep closer tabs on the action of the football games.
The iShoe is just one of 30 research and senior capstone projects involving critical collaborations between the computing-related industry and The Ohio State University that will be presented at the CETI Industry Day and Project Showcase from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday (6/10) in Scott Laboratories Room E100.
The projects are part of the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation: Partnership for Performance (CETI), a program initiated by Rajiv Ramnath in the College of Engineering’s Institute for Sensing Systems. Ramnath, who is director of the collaborative, wants to match students with business and industry representatives to develop computer and mobile applications through collaborative, large-scale and long-term interdisciplinary projects.
Thursday's event begins with registration and networking, followed by an 11 a.m. overview of the program and the projects and then the poster presentations. The Industry Day also will include a panel discussion, “IT Innovations for a Service-Based Economy,” at 12:30 p.m. with panelists Moez Chaabouni, Deputy CIO of the City of Columbus; Dinesh Dhamija, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer with TDCI Inc.; and Vijay Gopal, CTO of Shared Applications at Nationwide Insurance.
In addition to iShoe, the undergraduate and graduate students have worked with large corporations, nonprofit organizations and startup businesses as part of the CETI Partnership for Performance program.
For example, one team developed optimization strategies for Nationwide to reduce energy use in the company’s data centers.
Another project connected students with 14ninetytwo, an early-stage incubator for Web- and mobile-focused business concepts, and one of its clients, Tracy Warner Appiah, a working mother whose idea is to develop an Internet-based calendar to keep families connected and help them manage time. The Web site for the project, MYLEE (www.mymylee.com), short for Making Your Life Easier Everyday, is expected to launch later this month. Appiah wants to create a mobile version as well as an option to make the calendar available on electronic picture frames, televisions and other display devices for easy access for family members.
Students also are working with Songwhale, an entertainment service that delivers digital content to handheld devices; COSI, Columbus’ Center of Science and Industry; the Ohio State University Medical Center; and the City of Columbus.
“These kinds of integrated projects are a way for students to maintain a competitive advantage throughout the world,” Ramnath says.
