This course explores how databases are designed, implemented, used and maintained, with an emphasis on industrial and commercial applications. We focus on the relational database model and learn the mathematics of structured queries. Students will gain experience with a commercial database management system and will work in teams with local companies on a Design Project (DP) . Since the World Wide Web (WWW) is essentially a huge distributed multimedia database, we'll also learn how to design HTML pages, how to search and collect data on the web, and how the WWW can be used by industry.
115 Team Database Design Project Archive
On May 8, 1996, team projects competed for Andersen Consulting Prizes. See Team Projects for winners.
Jury
``Because of what I learned in 115 this Spring, I was able to answer most of the technical questions during my interview with Intel. My 115 experience was essentially what landed me the summer internship.'' -- James Lee, IEOR undergraduate.
``Student teams from two IEOR database design courses recently competed for $800 in prize money, placing their semester projects up for review before local technical gurus. Two juries of engineering professors and industry representatives rated the Web-based projects on the basis of creativity, database design, technical sophistication, functional richness, and user interface design. Prize money was donated by Anderson Consulting. "I was extremely impressed by how much the students accomplished in one semester," says assistant professor Ken Goldberg, who taught both courses. `Several have already gotten job offers and will probably be making more money than me this summer.''' -- Tamar Laddy, Berkeley College of Engineering Summer News