CE169A Web-based Systems for Engineering and Management

CE 169A: WEB-BASED SYSTEMS FOR ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

Fall 2004

INSTRUCTOR:

215-B McLaughlin Hall #1712
Telephone: (510) 642-7300 (direct)
Telephone: (510) 642-5672 (administrative assistant)
Facsimile: (510) 643-8919
E-mail: horvath@ce.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~horvath
Office Hours: M, W 11:15 - 11:45 am, W 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Th 2:15 - 3:00 pm. Additional times: send e-mail or call to make an appointment.

CLASS TIME:

Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:00 PM in 345 Davis Hall. rainbowline

LECTURE NOTES:

Lecture 1 - August 31 - Course Organization
- Course Syllabus (.pdf)
- Project Information (.pdf)
Lecture 2 - September 7 - HTML, 345 Davis Computing
- Introduction (.ppt)
- An example of how to insert a photo:
- An example of a graphic:
- more logos like the above are found here
Lecture 3 - September 14 - Creating your own HTML file
- Sample past projects:
  1. Comparison of Three Home Construction Types
  2. "Construction Rocks!" An intro web page on construction for high school students
  3. Sponsor a Famous Structure
  4. Fire Protection
  5. Projects for the Millennium
  6. International Construction Forum
  7. Website update for William P. Young Construction
  8. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Expansion
  9. Civic Wonders
  10. Honshu-Shikoku Bridges (Japan)
- Current project teams:
  1. Arman Shehabi, Mark Chang, Tyler Williams: LEED at UC Berkeley; "provides capital project managers with info on how to achieve LEED points on the Berkeley campus. For example, the site would tell them what UCB projects have been awarded a specific point, how it was done, and who to contact. The idea would be to streamline the certification process, saving the campus money.This type of site could be rolled over to the future UCB green campus guidelines."
  2. Vanessa OnMan Choy, Rita Jung-Yi Chu, Carol Cheuk-Ting Lam: Taipei 101
  3. David Rosenberg, Jose Sotelo, Tarun Singh: Water Resources Management in the Jordan River Basin
  4. Lauren Kuntz, Miriam Son, Cameron Pinkerton: Overview of Bridge Types
  5. Sarah Berndt, Kevin Cheung, Manish Dalia, Nathan Langdon: ASCE and Chi Epsilon Jobs Website
  6. Tai-Lin Huang, Danny Yost, Sara Garrett: Concrete Canoe
  7. Theresa Vu, Ying Xie, Assal Yavari: The Elements of the Construction World
  8. Jeff Coon, Long Duy Nguyen, Luyin Zhu: Three-Brick Bridge Competition for High School Students
  9. Kah Cheong Lai, Andrew Cambpell, Edwin Limanto: Website for Toxic Risk Research Engine
  10. Zofia Rybkowski, Nishil Bali, Justin Chen: Green Building "Idea Bank" to Assist Architects and Engineers in LEED-certified Buildings
  11. Dwito Hindharto, Gletwin Shanahan, Indra Wong: Hotel Management Website
- "Inspiration" and sources of information for class project (.ppt)
- References and Tutorials - HTML and Web Page Basics
  1. NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML, Excellent starter
  2. World Wide Web Consortium - W3C - the complete source of all web info
  3. color picker: http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/makapage/picker/
  4. The HTML Coded Character Set, a list of code positions and characters of the HTML document character set
  5. Finetuning your website (some commercial software you can try): http://www.netmechanic.com/
  6. Other resources:
    - Long listings are provided by http://www.andrys.com/home.html#htmlrefs
    - pagetutor etc.
- Sample pages for creating your own web site:
- Troubleshooting HTML
Lecture 4 - September 21 - Web Design Principles
- Web design (.ppt)
Lecture 5 - September 28 - Web Architecture
- Web architecture (.ppt)
Lecture 6 - October 5 - Obtaining IP Addresses; Output Generation from Software
- Output Generation from Software: PDF, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word (RTF)
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - handles IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions. Specifially see Regional Internet Regisitries and ICANN's List of Accredited and Accreditation-Qualified Registrars
- American Registry for Internet Numbers
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  - Domain Name Services
  - Generic Top-Level Domains
- Internet Engineering Task Force - the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet
Lecture 7 - October 12 - PHP, CEE Web Site, Guest lecture by Bill Boyd, CEE Web Master
- PHP Intro, etc. (.ppt)
- Web Examples
Lecture 8 - October 19 - Web Business, Future of Web Applications in Engineering and Management
- Web Business (.ppt)
Lecture 9 - October 26 - Project Presentations
- Sarah Berndt, Kevin Cheung, Manish Dalia, Nathan Langdon: Careers Website for ASCE and Chi Epsilon
- David Rosenberg, Tarun Singh: Water Resources Management in the Jordan River Basin
- Jeff Coon, Long Duy Nguyen, Luyin Zhu: Three-Brick Bridge Competition for High School Students
- Arman Shehabi, Mark Chang, Tyler Williams: LEED at UC Berkeley
- Zofia Rybkowski, Nishil Bali, Justin Chen: Green Building "Idea Bank" to Assist Architects and Engineers in LEED-certified Buildings
Lecture 10 - November 2 - Project Presentations
- Theresa Vu, Ying Xie, Assal Yavari: The Elements of the Construction World
- Vanessa OnMan Choy, Rita Jung-Yi Chu, Carol Cheuk-Ting Lam: Taipei 101
- Lauren Kuntz, Miriam Son, Cameron Pinkerton: Overview of Bridge Types
- Tai-Lin Huang, Danny Yost, Sara Garrett: Concrete Canoe
- Dwito Hindharto, Gletwin Shanahan, Indra Wong: Hotel Management Website
- Andrew Cambpell, Kah Cheong Lai, Edwin Limanto: Website for Toxic Risk Research Engine
| Prof. Arpad Horvath | E&PM Program | CEE Department | U.C. Berkeley |

CE 169A: WEB-BASED SYSTEMS FOR ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT / AH October 20, 2004