More than a dozen teams of Michigan State University undergraduate juniors and seniors are ready and waiting to help organizations (business, government, or nonprofit) and MSU researchers. As part of their final course in their Information Technology Minor, students are required to work in cross-functional teams on a real-world project. They just need a few more “clients.”
Instructors Teagan Dixon and Tom Day, who are teaching the course through MSU’s Departments of Accounting and Information Systems and Media and Information, say the students are capable of taking on a wide range of projects, because each team will be composed of students majoring in business, media and information, finance, supply chain management, engineering, and others.
A short list of completed and successful projects follows:
Websites & Content Management Systems
Students have designed new websites, redesigned existing websites and proposed new ideas for database systems, among other projects. For example, one student team was responsible for the redesign of online dashboards for Steelcase and MSU.
Businesses Strategies & IT Solutions
A student team has created a unified endpoint management strategy and built a proof of concept using the proposed solution for the Oakland County IT Department.
Market & User Research
Student teams have assisted companies in diverse ways when it comes to research needs, such as developing a full market assessment of web technologies for the Michigan Government Management Information Sciences or performing user research via surveys and focus groups for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division.
Social Media Marketing & SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies
Over the years, students have created social media campaigns and SEO strategies for several companies and organizations; one of the most recent projects was for Wrapped in Love, a clothing/accessories line providing comfort, style, and dignity for cancer patients.
To submit a project for consideration, please contact instructors Dixon (tdixon@msu.edu) and Day (daythoma@msu.edu) as soon as possible and no later than January 20.
Instructors Teagan Dixon and Tom Day are now accepting proposals from organizations (business, government, or nonprofit) or MSU researchers to have student teams take on projects for the Spring 2025 academic semester, starting in January and ending at the end of April. The instructors are open to a wide range of projects with a relatively well-defined deliverable (e.g., working website, market research, video editing, social media strategy).