Part 1: System analysis and design using UML
A computer engineering department wants to automate the summer internship process
by implementing an interactive web-based system. The Summer Internship Software
(SiS) is to be used by both students (interns) and organizations as well as department
administration (i.e. department secretary). The students will be able to sign up to
perform a summer internship, whereas organizations will specify the minimum
duration and the number and level of interns to accommodate during the upcoming
summer through this system. The eligibility of each student for one of the two
summer internships (one after the sophomore year, the other after the junior one) will
be checked by the system using the already existing student registration system of the
university.
An eligible student can perform internship in an organization of the following types:
corporations, universities, and research centers, with the condition that they will be
supervised by a computer engineer. Once the applications are done by both the
students and the organizations, the system can perform a matching between the
candidates and the organizations taking into account students' preferences. The
matching algorithm implemented earlier for another project could be re-used but the
incompatible interface would have to be modified. The students have the option to
specify the city in which the organization is located and the type of the organization.
The results are entered into the system by the department secretary.
Upon completion of the internship, each intern is to submit a report to the department,
which is evaluated by a faculty member. Such reports have company information, a
body (only text, no figures and sources) and an appendix which contains any figures
including screenshots and source code. The assignments are done by the department
secretary. The faculty member might ask for a revision of the report. Regardless of a
revision, the internship is either found to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory. The due
dates for the reports as well as the status of each internship is kept in SiS for faculty
members and students to view. Upon completion of the evaluation the faculty member
updates the status of the internships that s/he is evaluating.
SiS also facilitates review of each organization by the students and the department, so
upcoming students can make better choices.
The system should be able to be used without any major slowdowns by hundreds of
users simultaneously around deadlines. The memory usage is also an issue, thus the
system should delay loading of information as much as possible.
