In this project, we will try to make an interactive system that will enable the academic advisor to easily create a predicted academic schedule semester by semester towards graduation. Go back to Directory Problem background and analysis Education is very similar to an engineering project in the following aspect. Both engineering and education are very systematic procedures, which are consisted of stages. Among all stages, some stages can be carried out simultaneously, some stages must be finished before other stages can start and there must be a final stage where the goal is achieved. Also there is a classical topic of AOV network, which is the sorting of AOV network to find out the order to finish all stages.
Education differs from engineering in the following aspect.
In the engineering world, almost all aspects affecting the carrying out of the project can be determined before it starts. In another words, engineering project is a determinable problem. However, for education, there exists intrinsic uncertainty. For example, in order to fulfill a master degree, a student must take certain required courses and certain number of elective courses, which are undeterminable until the student finishes education. Two aspects decide the uncertainty.