2024 Design and Research Conference

Surge

Team Members: Abigail Folds, Gabriel Jose, Mason Kelley, Jacob Roberts

Sponsor:  Dr. Zakaria El-Awadi

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Surge is a project designed to solve the problem of employers not having an easy way to deliver custom training courses to their employees. Our site allows organizations to create and manage users, courses, and content. A wide variety of content types can be included in these courses, including quizzes, PDFs, and videos. Our main priority is seamless UI and high customizability for employers. While taking and distributing online training can be stressful and unnecessarily convoluted, Surge aims to provide simplicity for employees and organizations to receive the training necessary to operate efficiently.

UniJet

Team Members:  Ethan Joyce, Samman Regmi, Jay Reich, Josiah Norman

Sponsor:  Dr. Jonathan Walters

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

UniJet is a rideshare web application that fills the gap that other apps of similar functions fail to address. With UniJet’s focus on small college towns, students are connected in a way that allows them to take action against communal problems such as limited on-campus parking and the lack of transportation for students without vehicles. Users in need of a ride around town can request a driver in a seamless transaction that benefits both parties. With our scheduler feature, riders and drivers with compatible schedules are automatically recommended to each other, allowing for a convenient connection. After the connection is made, both parties will exchange phone numbers in case they need to stay in contact, and a live route to the other user will be displayed. After the rider has been picked up and dropped off, both users will be given the option to rate the other in order to maintain a healthy and safe environment for future users.

Adventure Logger

Team Members: Jaden Box, Austen Belmonte, Kaiden Carbaugh

Sponsor: Gaylene Davis

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Adventure Logger is a phone application with a website implementation dedicated to helping individuals share hiking/trail routes they have found with close friends. It also allows users to upload and see others’ uploaded trails with brief descriptions, a route visible through a map, and a length to complete.

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Focus Friends

Team Members: Evan Gray, John Parks, Elijah Payton, Chris Perry

Sponsor: Mark Morris

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Focus Friends is a mobile app with a timer that tracks and records user focus sessions. Users can procure in-app currency from completing focus sessions and use this currency to buy items to decorate their digital islands. Additionally, users can add friends within the app, view their islands, and compete on daily and weekly focus point leaderboards.

Scroll Rock

Team Members: Madeline Ballew, Troy Chiasson, Chris Clent, Zak Kilpatrick

Sponsor: Mason Ruiz and Barrett Routon, A&H Games

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

ScrollRack is a service designed to help manage, organize, and catalog user’s Magic: the Gathering card collection. Many users have piles of cards they can’t keep track of. Our service aims to assist them in managing and using this collection effectively so that they get the best experience from the game and their collections. Users have their collection that they can access on the web and their cell phones through their user accounts. Through our service, they are able to not only log their existing collection and save it in an easy-to-use database but also organize their cards into different folders and decks so they can plan their deckbuilding more easily. In addition, they can see the best and worst card prices each day, and they cannot only check the prices of cards but also have links to where they can purchase potential additions to their collection. The combinations of all of these into one service aim to assist players in optimizing their collection management and optimization.

KITE

Team Members: Karina Chang, Iftesam Nabi, Taylar Rankin, Ethan Hebert

Sponsor: John Spurgeon

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

KITE is a web-based file-sharing app that prioritizes ease of access and simplicity. The app runs on a React frontend hosted on Google Firebase, which is connected to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) MySQL database through a JavaScript backend hosted as a Docker container on GCP Cloud Run. Why KITE? As a kid, Ethan’s dad would build and fly kites with his siblings so high into the sky that you couldn’t see them anymore. You only knew your makeshift kite wouldn’t flow away if you had tension in your string. Our app works similarly. You upload files into the cloud and receive a code in return. This code is the string connecting you to these files. You can then share this code with friends to pull the files back onto their devices. Combining the freedom of no login credentials and the cross-compatibility of a web-based application, our app functions as a universal AirDrop. Need to share something fast? Don’t have everyone’s numbers in the group? Is the file size too big for email? That one guy has an Android? Just kite it and move on with your life!

IDE Hotkeys

Team Members: Kylian Hagerich, Biraj Thapa, Keaton Williams, Josh Wilson

Sponsor: Dr. Andrey Timofeyev

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

IDE Hotkeys allows users to create customized preset commands within their preferred IDE to streamline coding and reduce the time programmers spend moving their mouse. It is a fully customizable hotkey system powered by self-created pseudo-language and Python modules.

Animal Adopt

Team Members:  Will Shepherd, Cordus Bailey, Casey Lee, Jack Sulzer, Alex Mounts

Sponsor: Dr. Zakaria El-Awadi

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Animal Adopt is a web application that streamlines the animal adoption process. Our website creates a hub for pet adopters, people adopting pets, and pet adoption organizations. The user has access to various features, including profile/account creation, a feature dashboard, an explore page featuring various pets up for adoption, user messaging, group creation, forum uploading, map services, an event scheduler, and user settings.

Cozy Closet

Team Members: Tristen Barton, Coniya Butler, Victoria Crenshaw, Austin Hampton, Chance Jackson

Sponsor: Jessica Lachney

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Cozy Closet is a social media site and marketplace for fashionistas. It runs using Django as its framework, SQL Lite as its back-end, and Debian GNU/Linux 12 Bookworm as its server.

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VRDF

Team Members: Peyton Caro, Noah Jones, Spencer Rochel, Jayden Tarrance

Sponsor: Dr. Brad Glisson

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Our project is a gamification of the Digital Forensics class offered here at Louisiana Tech using virtual reality.

EduHubCollaborate

Team Members: Jeremy Wood, Nick Gilley, Grant Gremillion, Jenny Yonjan Tamang

Sponsor: Kirk Hasse

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

EduHubCollaborate is a website where teachers and students can communicate outside of class to ask questions about course material, homework, etc. Teachers proctor the chats to ensure academic honesty.

Accentuate

Team Members: Samrina Dhami, Edward Benjamin Marquez, Ben John-Denis Meister, Ujjen Rajkarnikar

Sponsor: Dr. Andrey Timofeyev

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

A virtual closet mobile app allows users to upload pictures of their clothes to create a collage of outfits to share with their followers and reverse image search clothing items.

Sport Trainer

Team Members:  Olga Bienzobas, Zachary Nalepa, Nabinta Niraula, Cameron Robertson

Sponsor:  Ilana Tetruashvili

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

A social media app targeted at Sports and Fitness enthusiasts to create and interact together. Users can upload training and instruction videos, workout plans, meal plan recipes, and more. Users can connect with friends, create groups and communities, and schedule events. Events are scheduled meetups for users to get together and practice or play. Professional Trainers can also advertise their services to connect to prospective learners more easily. Sport Trainer is the place for fitness enthusiasts to learn and meet other sports enthusiasts.

ProcrastiNot

Team Members: Calin Farmer, Nathan Jahn, Alvin Kie, Matthew Mahan, Clifton Roller

Sponsor:  Michael Reed

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Anti-procrastination app for blocking user-selected websites and apps for some time while studying.

Tech Connect

Team Members: Ryan Erbelding, Michael Hebert, Nick Landry, Lawson Peters, Elena Simon

Sponsor:  Dr. Les Guice

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Tech Connect is an app designed exclusively for Louisiana Tech students to encourage connectivity and collaboration within the campus community. As a virtual hub for students, Tech Connect offers many features tailored to enhance campus life, including a campus map, the academic calendar, distinct channels for various topics, and more. Through Tech Connect, students can effortlessly connect with peers based on shared interests, majors, courses, or extracurricular activities. In addition to social networking capabilities, Tech Connect offers practical functionalities such as event organization and coordination, enabling students to stay updated on campus happenings, club meetings, and academic deadlines. Tech Connect is designed to streamline campus life, empower students to create meaningful connections and enrich the Louisiana Tech University experience.

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Agriculture Demeters

Team Members:  James Allen, Christian Brunning, Trey Burkhalter, Josh Harold

Sponsor:  Max Hyde

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

Our project is an IoT system using an Arduino and a variety of sensors/controllers. It is driven by a website interface running on Razor pages and powered by the .NET framework.

VR Lab

Team Members: Mir Ali, David Olivier, John Virga, Aidan Weinreber

Sponsor: Dr. Pradeep Chowriappa

Advisor: Mr. Thomas J. Bowman

We aim to revolutionize academic labs with VR by making them more cost-effective, safer learning spaces with instant AI feedback. Unity-powered virtual components cut costs and enhance safety.