D R A T

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D R A T
departmental
resource
assignment
tool
May 02-13

• ABSTRACT
• Every semester each department at Iowa State
  University has to assign its faculty members and
  teaching assistants (TAs) to the courses offered,
  which is referred as the departmental resource
  assignment in this context. Currently, this is
  done manually in the ECpE department and there is
  a great need for the development of a tool that
  does this assignment automatically. The goal of
  this project is to develop a tool that will allow
  the ECpE administrator to generate the assignment
  in a faster and easier way. It will generate an
  efficient assignment satisfying the user
  preferences and maximizing the resource usage. To
  provide users the convenience and easy access to
  the tool, it will be web-based.
• TECHNICAL PROBLEM
• The DRAT shall use the Maximum Weighted Matching
  algorithm to assign every faculty members and TAs
  to each course without any conflict while taking
  into account their course preferences. All data
  shall be stored in a database.
• OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

• DESIGN CONSTRAINTS
• No limit on the maximum number of users and
  courses.
• No budget provided to buy software or
  equipment.
• The GUI must provide all functionalities
  required to maintain the DRAT.
• The DRAT shall be accessible on any standard
  web-browser.
• MILESTONES
• Completed project plan and design documents.
• DRAT successful implementation.
• Completed testing.
• Final release.

Figure 2 Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
TEAM INFORMATION Clients and Advisors
Team members Prof. Arun Somani Don
Curtis CprE Ami Kusano CprE Prof. G.
Manimaran Yana Ong CprE Ishak
Surip EE