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 easy filtering through their event needs. To promote such events, students can also live share photos and announcements in a forum.

Members

• Kristine Ehlinger, Systems Engineering '20
• Carol Pazos, Systems Engineering, Operations and Supply Chain Management '20
• Dylan Zubata, Systems Engineering, Economics and Strategy '20
• TA: Natalie Ng

Objectives

• Display an annotated map (from arcGIS) that shows destinations on campus including all major buildings on campus
• Have an interactive live-feed to which website visitors can upload pictures and send announcements for meetings and events
• Access the complete website from both our demo laptop and visitors cell phones

Challenges

• Learn how to code using HTML
• Figure out how to encode the arcGIS into the webpage
• Learn how to create a live-feed network on our website
• Finding a way to allow people to upload photos and announcements into the feed
• Create a search box so that users can find the locations from announcements on the map
• Complete annotations on WUSTL campus map
• Making the website user-friendly

Budget

• arcGIS Map = $0 (Provided by arcGIS)
• Notepad = $0 (Previously installed in computer)
• Amazon Web Services Account: $0
• Domain Name and Route 53 server (1 year ownership of the domain and data storage) = $13.14

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

  Elastic Compute Cloud
      *$0.005 per Elastic IP address not attached to a running instance per hour (prorated): 125 hours costs $0.63
  Route 53
      *$0.40 per 1,000,000 queries for the first 1 Billion queries: 623 queries costs $0.01
      *$0.50 per Hosted Zone for the first 25 Hosted Zones: 1 Hosted Zone costs $0.50
  Registrar
      *Registration of "www.washudoing.com": $12

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

Project Budget will be updated at the end of the semester as we access more capabilities on AWS.

Gantt Chart