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

Results

Our final code has been uploaded to a repository in Github: https://github.com/kristine-ehlinger/ESE205.