Real-world project experience for IT students through honors scholars program

The purpose of this poster presentation is to describe how the honors scholars program at the College of Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati helped Information Technology (IT) students to implement real-world projects, engaged in community service and thus enriched their student life. A team of students and faculty in the Honors program and the construction professionals at the Messer Construction Company developed a web based knowledge base to tap the experience o construction professionals in the company. Through the honors credits projects students developed web sites for community organizations.