Capstone Projects By Industry
Bree'ya Brown
Thesis/Masters Report
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Patricia Galloway and Dr. Loriene Roy
The Peculiarities of Community Archives: Exploring the Documentation of History and Memory through Digital Archives and Social Media.
This work introduces community-based archives in the United States that practice archivist activism through the use of digital archives and social media to an academic and public audience. The archives presented in this study reveal successful efforts of archivists who engage with and record the stories of underrepresented and historically marginalized communities. In hopes of understanding the profound importance of community-based archives to the archival field and the field of history, this work presents an analysis on three community-based archives: ATX Barrio Archive, the Black Lesbian Archives, and the Texas After Violence Project.Jackie Dillon
Thesis/Masters Report
Faculty Advisor:
Soo Young Rieh
Elevating Instructional Design by Incorporating Design Thinking Principles
Instructional design, a field of theory and practice established within education and corporate education training, is shifting in today's modern technological world. Once only focused on the content of the established curriculum and the traditional (paper, pencil) ways of presenting that information, now, instructional designers are faced with the challenge of leading the way for innovative e-learning training and solutions using the latest technology trends and tools. In this report, I will examine current instructional design models and their approaches, then compare the models to the design process of Design Thinking. This report will showcase the belief that utilizing the Design Thinking mindset within the established instructional design models will elevate the instructional design field and current learning solutions, therefore allowing for the instructional design field to continue to grow.Andrew Elkin
Professional Experience Project
Inchoate Elk LLC
with: Walker Riley
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInMultiplayer Virtual Reality Space Simulation
A multi-platform, multiplayer, virtual reality space simulator with detailed physics and realistic scale created in Unreal Engine.Imani Evans
Professional Experience Project
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
with: Elizabeth Stauber
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInSocial Network Analysis for Foundations: the Case of the Hogg Foundation
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is invested in data visualization as a way to further understand the impact of its grantmaking and to identify misalignment, if any, between the foundation's work and its stated goals and values. My Professional Experience Project is a structured exploration of a particular visualization approach, social network analysis (SNA), considered for its potential to yield useful insights into these key questions.Nora Green
Professional Experience Project
Khoros
with: Dan Craig
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInLabeling Systems Feature Redesign
The Community product currently has four separate features that function as labeling systems: Labels, Tags, Product Mentions, and Custom Tags. After reviewing ~8 years of user suggestions and complaints, completing a systems review, collecting data via sampling, and producing a competitive analysis, 5 themes for issues to be improved were determined. This resulted in 5 goals for redesigning the Labels and Tags features into a single feature. Approximately 34 wireframes were created to map out the proposed design, comprising the functions available from the content page, admin backend, and user profile.Laura Grove
Professional Experience Project
The Catholic Archives of Texas
with: Selena Aleman
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInDeveloping a Repository-Specific Processing and Training Manual
The Catholic Archives of Texas (CAT) is a unique, state-wide repository for the Texas Catholic community. Operating since 1923, the repository has no processing or training protocols in place. As such, this project focused on developing these policies and implementing a workflow. Because CAT is a unique archive, training and processing manuals were compiled and consulted from a variety of repositories, both religious and secular. Additionally, repository-specific needs and Catholic requirements were thoroughly investigated. The final product is a detailed processing and training manual designed to be accessible to both trained archival professionals and the average untrained volunteer.Vanessa Hutchins
Professional Experience Project
LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collection
with: Albert Palacios
My Poster My Zoom Visit My PortfolioA Digital Collection: Santa Anna in Life and Legend
The Benson Latin American Collection holds the memoirs of Mexican politician Antonio López de Santa Anna. It also holds abundant primary sources that add voices to his account of Mexico's history. I curated a digital collection of 40 documents related to the era of Santa Anna's revolutions, and generated their item-level metadata in MODS. With this dataset I designed a viewer-centered Spotlight exhibit aimed at high school students, presenting archives as a springboard for understanding Mexico's first independent decades. Using ArcGIS and MapWarper, I georeferenced archival maps, photographs, and manuscripts to build an interactive exhibit component that invites temporal-geospatial analysis.Regis Junearick
Professional Experience Project
Faculty Innovation Center
with: Matthew R. Russell
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInFaculty Innovation Center - The Usability of Data
Data Visualization Dashboards are increasingly common across academic and professional domains. As dashboards near ubiquity, a challenge to face is not only how effectively they present their stories, but how a website or online repository can display them to the best effect. I worked with the Faculty Innovation Center to discover and implement means of displaying dashboards, through UX/UI Design and Front-End Web Development.Mavis Klemcke
Professional Experience Project
Williams Elementary
with: Kristina Tarsha
My Poster My Zoom Visit My PortfolioSchool Libraries during a global pandemic
School Libraries and Covid19 : Adapting a school library program to meet its community's demands and needs during a global pandemic. For this project, I planned, designed, and implemented ideas and processes to adapt library practices and procedures to ensure relevancy, use, and support for students and teachers. The first project, "Bilingual Curbside Pickup," created a way for students and families to have a contactless process for checking out and returning books. Other projects included instructive lessons on new technology and administering new practices that foster a love of reading and learning while providing materials in the safest way possible.Stormie Koerner
Professional Experience Project
Dell Medical School Library
with: Imelda Vetter
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInImproving and Updating the Dell Medical School Libguide: The Importance of Maintaining a Standardized Resource Guide
My capstone project involved improving, updating, and standardizing the Dell Medical School Libguide. To accomplish these tasks, I performed an initial assessment of the Libguide and circulated a user feedback survey to students at Dell Med. Throughout the Libguide, I updated resource links and standardized font types. I created new versions of the Databases, Health Statistics, and Medical Writing Resources sections, and added a glossary of key terms for writing medical literature. I tracked all of my changes and updates in a master excel spreadsheet, and also wrote an organizational guidelines document to assist with future updates to the Libguide.Morgan Ladd
Library Practicum
Steiner Ranch Elementary School and Four Points Middle School
with: Kay Gooch
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInThe Flexibility of School Libraries Amidst a Pandemic
I completed my School Library Practicum at Steiner Ranch Elementary School and Four Points Middle School in the Leander Independent School District. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the experience of the school libraries was modified in many ways. I adapted my lessons to adhere to social distancing guidelines, and I observed the modification of library procedures to protect the health of students and faculty. Each school library implemented curbside checkout services to provide equitable access to books for all students. My focus this semester was promoting the libraries through social media and expanding the collection to encourage students to continue reading.Tina Lassiter
Professional Experience Project
KUNGFU.AI
with: Stephen Straus, Steve Kramer, Jeffrey Gleason
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInEthics in the Technology Sector
My project focuses on how technology companies can implement ethics in their work. Over several months, I observed how KUNGFU.AI ensures that it is acting ethically. I attended weekly ethics discussions, analyzed their ethics Slack channel, and interviewed team-members. Through a survey with over 65 other tech companies, I learned more about various approaches and opinions concerning ethics in the tech world. My research allowed me to create a database for the company, introduce an online tool designed by AI-Global that provides ethical scores and reports for projects, and inform my company about other possible ideas for the future.Oliver Lu
Professional Experience Project
Mirih Arts Co., Ltd.
with: Crystal Lupa
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInPersonal Art Collections Database
Input 94 artworks into a database for personal art collections inventory management. The goal of this project is to help an art collector manage his/her own collections with a database. To decide what metadata to be used, I refer to the auction catalogs, Websites, exhibitions, galleries, and interviews with artists and collectors. For those easy-to-recognize artworks, the data comes from the art-related Websites and databases, if searchable. On the contrary, the information relies on the collector's memory or notes as hints. Beyond the artworks' data, I add available trading records into the database as well.Mona Sachdev
Professional Experience Project
AI-Health Lab, UT-iSchool
with: Ying Ding
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInBio-Entity Extraction of COVID-19 Literature
In light of the worldwide pandemic, COVID-19 Portal sums up COVID-19 related research endeavors from more than 200,000 research papers which can encourage researchers to cooperate and share resources. The objective of my project is bio-entity extraction for COVID-19 papers using tools like PubTator and BERN, neural named entity recognition tools for biomedical text mining, and entity extraction. The dataset obtained from open source platforms like PubMed and Kaggle is processed by extracting biological entities, authors, and identifying affiliations. Simultaneously, extracting the current most mentioned biological entities (e.g., drugs, diseases, vaccines, genes) in clinical trials and the lists of most active scientists, institutions, and the topics or biological entities they are working on.Rachel Walfoort
Professional Experience Project
Bureau of Economic Geology
with: Linda McCall
My Poster My Zoom Visit My Portfolio Connect on LinkedInBureau of Economic Geology Collection Summaries
The Resource Center at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at The University of Texas at Austin collects, organizes, preserves, and makes available the records produced by the BEG. For my capstone, I reviewed the databases for the three primary collections: the Open File Reports, the Open Data Storage, and the Map Room. Using the metadata from these databases, I wrote a mission statement for the Resource Center and summaries of each collection. The mission statement and summaries can be posted on the BEG website to increase visibility of the collections.Fangjiang Wu
Professional Experience Project
UT Divsion of Student Affairs
with: Alex Correa
My Poster My Zoom Visit My PortfolioNew Student Services Database Project
New Students Service department conducts a web portal, which provides newcomers and future students with orientations and comprehensive information of UT. In this capstone project, my main goal is to assist improving the database of New Student Services orientation system. I initially provide an analysis of current issues. Then, I modify registrants-related database tables and provide a proposed Entity Relationship Diagrams. I also help administers improve their efficiency accessing data by associating their notes with students' logs. Furthermore, I am involved in improving email notification auto-sending part in system, where I assist modifying back end codes and relevant database tables.Jiaron Yang
Professional Experience Project
AI-Health Lab, UT-iSchool
with: Ying Ding
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