ABET Accreditation Tool from FAU: Installation Instructions March 27, 2013

Please contact shankar@fau.edu for help with installation and use.

Files to Download:

• Eclipse – Make sure to get the enterprise Edition for your computer system (ie. eclipse-jee-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64.zip)

• Tomcat – Eclipse will have to be customized depending on which version of Tomcat you download (ie. apache-tomcat-7.0.35-windows-x86.zip)

• MySQL– Make sure to get MySQL for your computer system at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ you may be able to get All MySQL Products for All Windows Platforms in one package. It is important to get the Query Browser, the Workbench, the connector, and the server as part of the same download.

• Java – Make sure to get JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 5 or newer at http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

• SSH (Secure Shell) - This utility will come handy to move files from your computer to the server and vice versa. It can be found at: http://www.fau.edu/oit/web/ssh.php Make sure to download the appropriate one for your system.

If Java is not already installed on the computer, this should be the first step. After java is installed make sure the CLASSPATH in the Environment Variables reflects the path to the JRE library (ie. C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip). After Java the order of installation is not critical. Since Tomcat is installed to be used with Eclipse and not as a standalone version, just unzip the file in a directory and keep track of its location (unzipping it on C: is good enough). After Eclipse has been installed, it must know where the Tomcat directory is. MySQL download is usually an executable file which installs itself in default directories. These default directories are fine. Extract Eclipse Enterprise Edition to c:\, run eclipse.exe an accept the default location of the workspace. Application and DATABASE download Install SSH using its defaults. Using SSH add a new profile called ABET, as a Host Name use abet.eng.fau.edu with Username root leave the rest of the parameters with the defaults and click OK. From the main screen in SSH click on Profiles select ABET and use the password ravicarlojonathan. The server would be on the right and your computer would be on the left. At the root directory there will be two files (ABET.war and abetdb.sql). select them both and download them to your computer keeping track of their location. MySQL DATABASE Set-Up Using MySQL Workbench in the right hand side under Server Administration click on New Server Instance.

Select Localhost as the server.

Name the connection with an appropriate name and name the default schema ABET.

Make sure all three check marks are set and click Next

Set Windows configuration parameters (Leave the defaults) and click next

Testing Host Machine Settings (Leave Defaults) and click next

If all checks succeeded for Connection and Configuration click Continue

Create the Instance Profile by naming the Server Instance something like ABET@localhost and click on Finished.

Once your new server instance has been created click on “Manage Import / Export

Select the Server Instance just created and click OK.

Click on the Import from Disk tab , select Import from Self-Contained File, browse to the location where the file abetdb.sql was placed, and click on Start Import.

This should load the already created data into the data base.

ABET Application Set-Up On Eclipse

From the main menu click on File and select Import.

On the Web Folder select WAR file and click Next.

Browse to where the file ABET.war is located, call the Web project ABET, SELECT Apache Tomcat as the Target runtime, and click on finish.

Click Yes on this kind of project is associated with the Java EE perspective. Do you want to open this perspective now?

When Eclipse is finished importing the Project Explorer Window should look like this:

Highlight the project ABET and click right

Select Properties

Select Java Compiler and make sure to change the Compiler compliance level to the level installed in your system.

Select Java Build Path and click on Libraries

Click on Add External JARs

Browse in the location of Apache Tomcat for servlet-api.jar and click on Open

Click OK and now we are ready to run the application.

Running the Application Inside Eclipse

Highlight the Project ABET. From the Menu select Run, then select Run As, Then Select Run On Server

Click on Next

Click on Finish

The screen should look like this:

Professor Application for Student Update

Each professor will need a user name and a password in order to access his/her courses

Once the professor has signed-on, a list of his/her courses will be displayed. A course may be selected by checking the radio input and clicking on the Select course button.

A list of the students in the course will be displayed along with the meaning of each of the skills necessary for accreditation. In the following screen the professor may be able to update each student with “U” for Unsatisfactory or an “S” for Satisfactory. After all the students in a course have been updated, the professor may return to the list of courses by clicking on the Return Home button.

After all students for all courses for a particular professor have been updated, the professor may Logout by clicking on LogOut at the top right corner of the screen.

Coordinator Application for Accreditation Summary

The coordinator will have his/her own username and password. After the coordinator has signed-on the following screen will be displayed:

The first operation that the coordinator should perform is to load the Database with the corresponding data.

The data file must be a CSV file with the following text format fields:

Student ID, Course subject and number together without spaces, Course Title, Course Term, Instructor’s Full Name, Student Last Name, Student First Name, Course Grade, Instructor’s Email Address, and Student Graduation Term.

Using the “Browse” button locate and select the file in the computer. Using the “Upload .csv” button load the database.

The second operation of the coordinator and final goal is to get a report with the accreditation criteria for ABET for a particular student. This report can be done on “Ongoing” students or on “Graduating” students and the procedure is as follows:

• Select the Term • Select whether Ongoing of Graduating • Click on “Get Students” button

A screen like the following will be displayed:

Select by clicking on a particular student and a screen like the following will be displayed:

When all of the instructors have added the information for all the students in each one of their classes, the report above will be complete with all the criteria required by ABET for accreditation.