Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Journal Post 11

My abstract has been accepted for the UMCUR conference! I will have to do one more rewrite which will be do April 4th. Due to some unforeseen circumstances the last wave of the thin-client rollout was postponed until Monday of this week so the data should be in the spreadsheet by next Tuesday.  The things that have been accomplished since the last post include:

  • Spreadsheet updated to include a new comparison sheet that includes up to date extrapolation data for the entire UM campus. The spreadsheet can be found (here)
    • The data includes thin-client and repurposed extrapolation for 1%, 2%, 5%, and 10% of entire university.
    • I have taken the total number of active ports that was given to me by UM IT and cut it in half to account for controllers, printers and laptops that may be using the active ports. 
    • The data is accurate as of now but I do need to measure the energy output of one of the regular workstations again. 
  • I have started to put together a layout for the poster presentation that can be found (here). It does not have any color is a work in progress. 
    • I am using Adobe Illustrator and spent some of the weekend familiarizing myself with the software.
  • The questionnaire is almost finished now and should be ready to be passed out by the time the last wave of thin-client testing is finished. The questions I have right now can be found (here).
It is getting down to crunch time now with the presentation only 1 month away. I feel very confident that the data that i have gathered will make for an interesting presentation and findings that will be useful to the university system as a whole. The week ahead will be a busy one for me as I will attend the training for the UMCUR presentation as well as finalizing the thin-client data. In the coming weeks the data should become more concrete and my poster presentation should start to take more of it's final form. Check back next week (hopefully this weekend) to see the progress I have made and to get a better understanding of the findings and presentation strategy I will be taking. 


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