Computer Science and Information Technology Capstone Senior Showcase

Photo of School of Computer Science Senior Showcase Students and faculty — 2019 - Seniors, Graduate Students and Faculty

The School of Computer Science and Technology at Kean University held the annual Senior Showcase on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Seniors in computer science and information technology showed off their senior projects, which included a range of projects such as: a parking lot parking spot detector, a fingerprint scanning lock, and an interactive visualization website for academic course planning. Both undergraduate and graduate students participated, with alumni from industry visiting and speaking with the students as they demonstrated their projects. Research posters from Kean's Research Days, held earlier this month, were also displayed and discussed. The showcase event, first established in 2015 by Dr. Jing-Chiou Liou, is now in the 5th year and continues to grow.

Here is an example of one of the projects explained by the KDS Project Team:

Photo of 2 Computer Science Students - Justin De la Cruz and Jose Salas describing their Capstone project to Prof. Karol — Justin De la Cruz and Jose Salas explaining their project to Prof. Karol

Kean Delivery System has been created for faculty and students on campus which expands different food options and doesn’t require them to leave their location to get their food. KDS will have food delivered to their customers as long as their location is on campus. Customers can also track their orders by checking the status page to find out where in the process their food is. We used PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and MYSQL to create an easy food ordering service.

In regards to the future of the KDS project, we would like to integrate cougar dollars/flex dollars as an alternate form of payment and finish adding the menu pages of all the campus restaurants we hope to partner with and someday provide the service to the Kean University community.

The Google Cloud Platform Project had a poster displayed. Senior Nicholas explains:

Photo of Computer Science Senior explaining his Google Cloud project (poster) to a professor — Nicholas Mitchell discussing his project with Prof. Liou.

As of recently, Cloud computing is a growing industry. More and more companies are migrating to Cloud Computing Services Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of them. The scope of this project was to see if GCP's infrastructure can prevent internal Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These DDoS attacks were conducted with a pen-testing tool called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC).