This page shows some of the prior projects done by students in the prior class. Some of the assignments have been altered for the current class, but their work is nonetheless interesting.

Startups from 2009 with their business plan abstract

MxApp -Mxapp will be the platform for online ordering, mobile ordering, and mobile marketing for the restaurant industry. The advent of smartphones and their subsequent success reveals the desire of a new generation of consumers to perform tasks quickly and on-the-go.  This includes the ability to easily find restaurants, determine if they have specials, and order from them in one combined package. Mxapp provides this package on all of the most popular mobile platforms allowing end users to easily find and order from restaurants and enabling restaurants to reach the new mobile consumer market.

Newater – Each spring, American farmers attempt to increase their corn yields by applying large amounts of the herbicide atrazine.  Unfortunately, spring rains wash the chemical into local watersheds and eventually to rural water supplies.  In order to pass EPA regulations, the water facilities must treat the water for atrazine.  After a heavy rain, tons of carbon can be consumed to reduce the atrazine back to acceptable levels.  Currently, rural water treatment facilities capture atrazine in the water with costly repeated applications of powdered activated carbon.