Opportunity research/collaborate on county planning offices project

Mark Hills, a faculty member from Computer Science, is looking for a couple of students to work on a community-based project that will improve efficiency of county planning offices. The students will participate in ECU’s I-Corps program and will facilitate interviews with planning departments to determine current challenges and then collaborate to explore opportunities for resolution. The statement below describes the project.

Our Team believes that health departments in county governments in North Carolina have a need for a new, supported, maintained software package that allows plat maps to be developed and annotated with information on features such as septic systems. Our solution is nuPlat, a modern application for developing and annotating plat maps. We believe that nuPlat solves the problems stated above by providing an updated application that runs on modern operating systems and, though a subscription model, can stay up to date while supporting multiple platforms. We will verify this by interviewing employees of county-level Health Departments across the state of North Carolina.

More information about I-Corps is available at https://icorps.ecu.edu/. Interested students may contact Mark Hills directly at hillsma@ecu.edu for more information about the project. They are also welcome to reach out to Marti Van Scott at vanscottm@ecu.edu or at (252) 328-9545.