Wash U Doing

Project Overview

Wash U Doing is a novel interactive website bringing Washington University students and student groups together. On-campus WUSTL groups will have the opportunity to create events on Wash U Doing, which students can find by easily filtering through their event interests.

Members

• Kristine Ehlinger, Systems Engineering '20
• Dylan Zubata, Systems Engineering, Economics and Strategy '20
• TA: Natalie Ng

Objectives

• Display current and upcoming events posted by WashU organizations
• Display an annotated map, using arcGIS, with locations around WashU main campus
• Allow users to filter through events by specific tags
• Create a database to enter and retrieve data
• Fulfill our goals of bringing together students and students groups on two main pages: an event creation page for data input and a home page for displayed and filtered data

Challenges

• Code using HTML, PHP, and SSH with limited coding experience
• Understand arcGIS software, complete annotations for a map of WUSTL campus, and implement it into our webpage
• Create a live-feed network on our website using a database
• Utilize AWS and its services, phpMyAdmin, PuTTY, and MySQL Workbench to suit the needs of our project
• Make the website user-friendly through set filters
• Assemble code that fulfills our website's purpose with no indication of syntax errors (because of working in PuTTY)

Budget

• arcGIS Map = $0 (Provided by arcGIS)
• Downloads for Notepad++, phpMyAdmin, PuTTY, and MySQL Workbench = $0
• Amazon Web Services Account: $0
• Domain Name Purchase and other AWS services (1 year ownership of the domain and data storage) = $38.88

This charge is largely based on a year's access to AWS and specific tools we access including Route 53, RDS, and the Elastic Compute Cloud. The charge breakdown includes:

  Elastic Compute Cloud- cost changes with usage
      *$0.005 per Elastic IP address not attached to a running instance per hour (prorated)
      *$0.10 per GB-month of General Purpose SSD (gp2) provisioned storage - US East (Northern Virginia)
      *$0.012 per On Demand Linux t2.micro Instance Hour
  RDS Service- cost changes with usage
      *$0.017 per RDS db.t2.micro instance hour (or partial hour) running MySQL
  Route 53- cost changes with usage
      *$0.40 per 1,000,000 queries for the first 1 Billion queries
      *$0.50 per Hosted Zone for the first 25 Hosted Zones
  Registrar
      *Registration of "www.washudoing.com": $12

https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/services/

Gantt Chart

This Gantt Chart reflects the distribution of work since the beginning of our progress on the final project idea.

Design and Solutions

March 23rd, 2017