We have discovered by teaching these courses over the years that students learn the most by doing course projects. Lectures teach them the technology and how to use it, but unless they apply it themselves to build complete systems, they do not assimilate the material. In addition, the process of developing a full system from conception to completion and seeing the fruits of their labor gives them tremendous satisfaction and confidence. We have developed 50 course projects from different application areas in IE/OR, business as well as engineering curriculum which you can download from this page. Each project description gives an overview of the decision problem; database design in Access; the queries, forms, and reports required; and user requirements for the desktop and web-enabled applications. Students can regard these descriptions as starting points of their projects and make creative changes as they deem fit. 

This Projects Manual is coauthored by Sandra D. Ekşioğlu, Abhijit A. Pol and Ravindra K. Ahuja.