Previous Final Projects

Here are a sampling of final projects from prior years! We started doing project-based learning in Spring 2025.

2025

Equipment Loan Database Team: Bintu, Rehab, Fatima and Nafisa Stakeholder: Kala’i Ellis of the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab Goal: To create a reservation system for the equipment managed by the SAL, such as GPS, drones, rangefinders, etc.

Frog Foot Flagging Behavior in DeeplabCut Video Demo Team: Katie & Nida (+ others who didn’t list their names publicly) Stakeholder: Prof. Lisa Mangiamele, Smith BIO department Goal: To make it easier to track foot flagging behavior in frogs by allowing spatial queries with PostgreSQL

Mothitor Light Monitoring Team: Cameron, Kika, Syd, Molly, Caroline Stakeholder: Prof. Mariana Abarca, Smith BIO department Goal: To integrate multiple data sources with data collected by a light monitor to contextualize moth behavior as captured by the Mothitor

Drone Imagery Search System Team: Sonora, Zoe, Glenvelis, Casey Stakeholder: Kala’i Ellis of the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab Goal: To store spatial information from drone flights to allow location-based querying