Resource Allocation and Management System for Advanced Technological Institute Galle

Abstract

This is the moment that we are stepping to a new era through the digital revolution. Everything is converting to digital format and all scientists, engineers are focusing their eye to a new technology. Higher education is a key factor of a country. Universities and higher educational institutes are playing major role. Sri Lanka Advanced Technological Education SLIATE is a major higher educational institute established under ministry of higher education. There are ten ATIs (Advanced Technological Institutes) under the SLIATE. ATI Galle which is situated in southern province conducts about nine courses that are Higher National Diploma in Engineering (HNDE), Higher National Diploma in Information Technology (HNDIT), Higher National Diploma in English (HNDE), Higher National Diploma in Management (HNDM), Higher National Diploma in Accountancy (HNDA), etc When prepare a class time table for a particular course, one timeslot has (8.30-10.30) venue (lecture hall number or Laboratory number or workshop number), type (lecture or practical or independent learning) conducting person/s (lecturer and/or demonstrator) and subject code. One lecturer/demonstrator may teach more than one course. Allocating these recourses without any conflict/clash for above mentioned courses is not an easy task. And other challenge is preparing personal timetables for each and every lecturers and demonstrators to optimize their working hours. Throughout this project (Resource Allocation and Management System)will discuss how to monitor activities, maintain logs, SMS based notifications, reserve limited resources and generate reports through all these functions system will be able to manage these limited resources and make better coordination, through that as an institute meets better productivity and success. System development is based on rapid application development methodology. .NET platform is used to develop the system. Random sample of staff members used to evaluate the new system and identify the user friendliness and whether meets requirements and goals from the new system. Successful feedback of the users proves that the project meets the identified requirements.