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Dunn, Paul; Miller, Robert E. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
This teaching case describes the functionality of a system employing IoT sensors to monitor part levels for a fictitious auto parts manufacturer. Data from the sensors are used to populate a centralized database and generate a dashboard for management. The system also generates tiered alerts to notify part runners and managers of pending part…
Descriptors: Database Design, Data Analysis, Manufacturing, Internet
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Luxford, Cynthia J.; Linenberger, Kimberly J.; Raker, Jeffrey R.; Baluyut, John Y.; Reed, Jessica J.; De Silva, Chamila; Holme, Thomas A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
As a discipline, chemistry enjoys a unique position. While many academic areas prepared "cooperative examinations" in the 1930s, only chemistry maintained the activity within what has become the ACS Examinations Institute. As a result, the long-term existence of community-built, norm-referenced, standardized exams provides a historical…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Tests, Database Design, Norm Referenced Tests
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Gates, Simon – School Science Review, 2013
Spreadsheets are useful for large data sets but they may be too wide or too long to print as conventional tables. Response grids offer solutions to the challenges posed by any large data set. They have wide application throughout science and for every subject and context where visual data displays are designed, within education and elsewhere.…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Database Design, Database Management Systems, Scientific and Technical Information
Alam, Javed; And Others – Engineering Education, 1991
Describes an image database system assembled using separate computer components that was developed to overcome text-only computer hardware storage and retrieval limitations for a pavement design class. (JJK)
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Computer Assisted Design, Computer Graphics, Database Design
Dunlap, Isaac Hunter – Computers in Libraries, 2005
In this article, the author describes his experience when Kathy Nichols contacted him seeking suggestions, recommendations--really anything he could think of--that might help her seize control of a bewildering and rapidly surging torrent of digital image files. The challenges that Nichols described interested him, and he felt they might be…
Descriptors: Archives, Photography, Visual Aids, Electronic Libraries
Walker, Alice D. – 1995
Although visual databases exist for the study of art, architecture, geography, health care, and other areas, readily accessible sources of quality images are not available for engineering faculty interested in developing multimedia modules or for student projects. Presented here is a brief review of Phase I of the Engineering Visual Database…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software Development, Database Design, Engineering Graphics
Johnson, Ian – 2003
TimeMap is a unique integration of database management, metadata and interactive maps, designed to contextualise and deliver cultural data through maps. TimeMap extends conventional maps with the time dimension, creating and animating maps "on-the-fly"; delivers them as a kiosk application or embedded in Web pages; links flexibly to…
Descriptors: Animation, Cultural Images, Culture, Database Design