Rowan?s Student-Based Agile Consulting Group Helps Advance Community Businesses
Rowan?s Student-Based Agile Consulting Group Helps Advance Community Businesses
November 27, 2001
While other students juggle projects, mid-terms and finals this semester, Jesse Cugliotta of Southampton, has another addition to his workload - a business.
Cugliotta, a junior mechanical engineering major, is one of five Rowan University students who operate the Agile Consulting Group this semester. The Agile Consulting Group, founded in January 2001, offers the mechanical and electrical engineering skills of students to businesses looking for talented and economical consulting services. As the CEO of the group, Cugliotta said he believes this experience will give the students/workers a feeling of what it?s like in the real world.
<+>This is a full-fledged business,<+> Cugliotta said. <+>It is a good opportunity for me to learn about the professional aspect of an engineering career.<+>
The group serves a variety of businesses. Last semester the group helped the New Jersey Department of Transportation with the circuit design, layout and testing of an automated crash notification system, designed to contact emergency services when a vehicle collided.
Currently, the group is focusing on a project to repair the weather monitor located outside the engineering building for Dr. Linda Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Its current solar panel setup causes problems by overpowering the battery. Once the monitor is repaired, direct weather updates will be available to the Rowan campus.
<+>A new webpage will provide weather updates and a historical archive,<+> said David Browning of Mid-West City, Okla., webmaster and archive specialist for the group.
According to Browning, the project will be completed at the end of the fall semester. <+>The hardware for the project is finished. We are currently working on the software,<+> he said.
The weather monitor is one of eight projects the group is working on this semester. Projects range from children?s jigsaw puzzles to conservation programs.
<+>The students are portable problem solvers,<+> said Leigh Weiss, computer science associate professor and advisor to the group. <+>Agile gives them the opportunity to move beyond the classroom and deal with all the dynamics involving client relationships.<+>
The group?s goal is to grow into a source of readily available expertise for the community, as well as Rowan faculty and staff.
** Other members working on the group?s projects are: Mike Collarin of Gloucester City, who serves as the secretary and public relations representative; Tim Poandl of Metuchen, director of mechanical engineering; and Ken Whelan of Pine Brook, director of electrical and computer engineering.
Cugliotta, a junior mechanical engineering major, is one of five Rowan University students who operate the Agile Consulting Group this semester. The Agile Consulting Group, founded in January 2001, offers the mechanical and electrical engineering skills of students to businesses looking for talented and economical consulting services. As the CEO of the group, Cugliotta said he believes this experience will give the students/workers a feeling of what it?s like in the real world.
<+>This is a full-fledged business,<+> Cugliotta said. <+>It is a good opportunity for me to learn about the professional aspect of an engineering career.<+>
The group serves a variety of businesses. Last semester the group helped the New Jersey Department of Transportation with the circuit design, layout and testing of an automated crash notification system, designed to contact emergency services when a vehicle collided.
Currently, the group is focusing on a project to repair the weather monitor located outside the engineering building for Dr. Linda Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Its current solar panel setup causes problems by overpowering the battery. Once the monitor is repaired, direct weather updates will be available to the Rowan campus.
<+>A new webpage will provide weather updates and a historical archive,<+> said David Browning of Mid-West City, Okla., webmaster and archive specialist for the group.
According to Browning, the project will be completed at the end of the fall semester. <+>The hardware for the project is finished. We are currently working on the software,<+> he said.
The weather monitor is one of eight projects the group is working on this semester. Projects range from children?s jigsaw puzzles to conservation programs.
<+>The students are portable problem solvers,<+> said Leigh Weiss, computer science associate professor and advisor to the group. <+>Agile gives them the opportunity to move beyond the classroom and deal with all the dynamics involving client relationships.<+>
The group?s goal is to grow into a source of readily available expertise for the community, as well as Rowan faculty and staff.
** Other members working on the group?s projects are: Mike Collarin of Gloucester City, who serves as the secretary and public relations representative; Tim Poandl of Metuchen, director of mechanical engineering; and Ken Whelan of Pine Brook, director of electrical and computer engineering.