Office Message Board

This project aims to provide faculty at ONU with an efficient tool to communicate changes in availability to students.Changes in availability can cause confusion between students and faculty.Our design will provide students with up-to-date information on their professors' whereabouts, letting them know when their professors are in their offices, at meetings, teaching classes, or unavailable.Stakeholders for this project include the university faculty, as they will use the product to update students on their availability.Students are another primary stakeholder, as they need a user-friendly, accessible method to view professors' office information.Another stakeholder is the IT department, as they will play a role by providing necessary network access.Lastly, the university administration provides funding and supplies.Once a design was chosen we needed to mount the device behind a glass window in order to be seen by the students and used by the faculty.We came up with several different solutions, but ultimately decided to choose hooks with suction cups.Suctioned to the glass, these hooks would provide ample support for the device, as seen through their rated maximum weight capacity and a simple weight test conducted on the suction cups.With these decisions made, we further developed other aspects of the design such as the website layout, screen sleep cost options, dimension specifications, manufacturing details, database information, and more.After all these decisions were made, we have the designs for a product that will adequately meet the needs of our clients and stakeholders at a cost of $142.30per unit.