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Senior Design Center's 'Posters & Pies' 30th Anniversary Celebration Set for April 23

Join the Department of Computer Science for the Senior Design Center's 'Posters & Pies' 30th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh. In addition to showcasing the student teams’ projects, this year’s celebration will include a panel discussion on the history of the Senior Design Center, plus goals for the center’s future.

About the Senior Design Center (SDC):

For three decades, the SDC has brought student teams and corporate sponsors together to work on real-world problems, with a goal of creating viable products, services, and solutions. This is one of the department’s strongest programs, helping develop and differentiate graduates as they enter the industry in a time of change, collaboration and growth.

The panel will kick off the 30th Anniversary Event at 1 p.m.; discussion topics will include the SDC’s founding, the importance of connecting students to industry and a glimpse into the center’s future. The panel will be moderated by SDC Technical Communications Advisor Kelly Markham. SDC Assistant Director Ignacio Domínguez will give a brief welcome before kicking off the discussion.

Panelists: 

• Alan Tharp: professor emeritus; former Department of Computer Science head; SDC co-founder
• Bob Fornaro: professor emeritus; SDC co-founder, first director and co-creator
• Margaret R. Heil: current SDC director, lecturer, advisor and co-creator
• Alex Cail: software developer at Katabasis; 2023 alumna; Spring 2025 project sponsor
• CJ Saretto: CTO at Axiom; 2001 alumnus (M.S.); CS Hall of Fame member; Spring 2025 project sponsor 

We hope you’ll join us for this year’s event, as it marks an important milestone in the program. It’s a great opportunity to connect with current industry leaders, including those who’ve sponsored this semester’s projects, and the talent of tomorrow – our CS students!

Spring 2025 Sponsors and Projects: 

1. Aspida: Internal Support LLM

2. Bandwidth: Emojilytics

3. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina: AI Evaluation of BCBS NC Content Effectiveness

4. Clariant: Gamified Sustainability

5. DELTA 1: DELTA Chatbot Editor 

6. DELTA 2: "Chatbot” Branching Dialogue Conversation Editor

7. FreeFlow Networks: DOGE Lobby

8. Game2Learn & Associates 1: AMBY

9. Game2Learn & Associates 2: SnapClass v7.0 Student LLM Tutor for Snap!

10. Game2Learn & Associates 3: SnapClass LLM AutoGrader

11. Game2Learn & Associates 4: Diagnostic Reasoning Game 1: Content Generation with LLMs

12. Game2Learn & Associates 5: Complex Medical Cases

13. Game2Learn & Associates 6: Trustworthiness

14. Hitachi Energy 1: Validating Hardware Devices to Monitor Transformers

15. Hitachi Energy 2: Transformer Data Channeling

16. Impartial 1: Justice Well-Played: The Prosecution's Case

17. Impartial 2: Justice Well-Played: Jury Selection & Judges Instruction

18. Impartial 3:  Justice Well-Played: Motions to Dismiss

19. Katabasis 1: Decide-O-Matic 10,000

20. Katabasis 2: Empowering Decision-Making for Students with EBD’s

21. K2S: WolfConnect

22. LAS 1: Data Routing Model

23. LAS 2: AI Benchmarking Leaderboard System

24. Merck: AI-Driven Unified Risk Optimization and Response Assessment (AURORA)

25. Nathalie Lavoine 1: The Sustainability EDULab

26. Nathalie Lavoine 2: The Sustainability EDULab v2.0

27. NC Department of Health and Human Services 1: Envelopes, Labels, & Forms Inventory App

28. NC Department of Health and Human Services 2: Integration Capabilities

29. NC Department of IT: IT Procurement Tracker

30. NC Parks and Recreation 1: Digital Passport

31. NC Parks and Recreation 2: Digital Passport

32. NCSU College Of Management: WolfSim

33. NCSU College of Natural Resources: ROOTS 3.0 The Christmas Tree Database 

34. NCSU CSC Senior Design Center 1: Senior Design Center Meeting Wizard

35. NCSU CSC Senior Design Center 2: Senior Design Center Grading Tool 

36. NCSU CSC Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: PackSyllabus: Syllabus Creation and Feedback Tool

37. NCSU Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology: WolfPest: Enhancing NC State's Pest Management Platform

38. NC Zoo & NCSU CSC CIIGAR Lab: Tracking & Visualizing Mouse Lemur Movement Patterns

39. OpenDI: A Hub For Causal Decision Models

40. Pala: Mobile Advertisement Platform

41. SAS 1: Curator’s Compass: Data Product Identification

42. SAS 2: Curator’s Compass

43. ShareFile: Formulator

44. Srougi: VR Biotech Minigames

45. Stallman 1: Graph Algorithm Animation Tool

46. Stallman 2: Galant: Improving Graph Algorithm Visualization

47. Xu & Lan: EcoValid: AI-Powered Data Validation Chatbot

Thank you to our program partners for their support of the Senior Design Center's "Posters & Pies" 30th Anniversary Celebration: SAS and the Computer Science ePartners Program.