A student project for AHSE1500: Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship (taught in Spring 2006) featuring an Olin College themed tradable card game. It consists of cards of students, professors, locations, and events.
This record contains the Final Report for the project and scanned images of all the cards in the game.
The team studied the marketplace and design space around location-based services for mobile devices, and found that the increasing fidelity and decreasing cost of location-sensing technology provides an opportunity. To take advantage of this opportunity, the team developed a prototype location platform that collects data about the movements of users. They tested this prototype through field trials and user interviews, and further developed applications that leverage the capabilities offered by the platform. To be of value to the sponsor, the team also developed commercialization plans for the designed platform and applications.
The Olin Raytheon/WHOI SCOPE team is assisting WHOI in the buoy design effort by writing software tools for managing the energy budget of a deployed buoy. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists are constructing buoys for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), an NSF funded program that will construct a network of buoys for monitoring physical, chemical, geological, and biological variables in the ocean and on the sea floor. The buoys in development for the OOI by WHOI will be expected to operate for 25 years with annual maintenance. Power for an array of reprogrammable sensors will be dependent on a combination of solar and wind power generation and an on-board fuel cell replenished during the annual maintenance.