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These are available projects for IS480. The descriptions are maintained by the sponsor or sent to the course manager. Some projects provide awards. Past Projects


Buy1GIVE1 – powering a more giving world B1G1 logo small.png

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B1G1 is not so much a Social Enterprise company – it’s more the start of an extraordinary movement to create a world full of giving.

Through the web, live in front of audiences around the world, B1G1 brings businesses, individuals and Worthy Causes together in a way not seen before.

The key: transaction-based giving

One of the keys to B1G1’s expanding presence is transaction-based giving, where small amounts from day-to-day transactions are given back to Worthy Causes to make a massive difference. Consider this simple act — buying a cup of coffee. Nothing extraordinary in that. But imagine it this way …. Buying a cup of coffee and a child in Africa getting access to water as a direct result. B1G1 links any business products/services to giving activities. And it does it simply, efficiently and effortlessly.

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Design and Being Crazy

B1G1 understands more than most, we think, about the importance of design and simplicity and clarity of processes. And some might see our mission of creating a world full of giving as crazy. And that’s why we like what Steve Jobs of Apple had to say about being crazy: “.... where some people see crazy we see genius: .....because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

We have so far worked on building our new giving systems with SIS students and it has significantly enhanced the activities and operations of B1G1. Now, we are taking it even further to maximise the way we encourage more giving to happen through our network.


Required System

We are now working on additional systems for the existing giving engine (www.b1g1.com) to make the giving activities of users and supporters more effective and versatile. One significant one is the Giving Credit System – which we can also call ‘Giving Bank’.

This Giving Credit System will allow the business members of B1G1 to pre-purchase giving credits and use them later or issue these credits to their employees and customers as incentives/rewards. This will encourage more giving activities among the members.

More detailed requirements can be discussed with interested student groups. However, the project is still open to accommodating many more creative ideas.

We see this system will really enhance the way we monitor the network activities and how we reward people who take actions to support B1G1 – creating more giving in our world.


Below is the list of key skill requirements.

  • Technical understanding and ability to program PHP-based system (because our current site is PHP)
  • Creative thinking to come up with new solutions for our systems and operations
  • Basic understanding for Drupal system preferred (we are currently in a process of launching a Drupal based website so understanding of our current structure will help efficient linking of systems and applications)
  • Good understanding in database management


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Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank - iLab@SMU

iLab@SMU is a collaborative partnership setup in 2006 by Standard Chartered Bank and SMU to create a hotbed for business, technology and financial innovations that will be rolled out across the Bank's network in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, while delivering on the Bank's commitment and belief in talent development. The collaboration creates opportunities for students to experience the corporate environment as they work on projects to solve real-life business problems with the Bank.

iLab@SMU has sponsored close to thirty IS480 projects since its inception in 2006 and had generously recognized and rewarded excellent performance from IS480 teams and individuals that delivered exceptional results in their projects.


Got ideas? Talk to us about it!

Come to us if you want to explore project possibilities. A number of iLAB projects have been initiated by YOUR ideas, and then refined through interaction with SCB professionals.


Requirements for ALL iLab@SMU projects :

  • Passion and Willingness to explore boundaries of innovations
    • New tools, Development environment
  • Academic Modules pre-requisite
    • IS203 Software Engineering
    • IS301 Enterprise Integration

Contact: Koh Lian Chee - lckoh@smu.edu.sg / ilab@smu.edu.sg


Drop by iLab (UPL Lab) @ SIS Level 3 every Tuesday and Thursday, or drop an email to us to arrange a time with our staff to find out more about the Standard Chartered Bank @ iLab!


H.N. Mok

Talking to a Car

Description: Diagnostics information (e.g. speed, fuel etc) from modern cars can be read from the car's onboard diagnostic (OBD) tool. This project involves the creation of a mobile application which communicates with the car's OBD tool (via bluetooth) to extract useful data and display them as meaningful graphs. This project will be a very "showy" one if properly implemented.

Prerequisites: Passion & general proficiency in programming. Students are expected to be self-learning a lot.

Timeline: This project is expected to take <6 months (preferably summer months). There is a lot of flexibility in scope and this project is extensible to very difficult proportions, so the amount of time required is dependent on the scope which will be agreed upon at the onset of the project.

Contact: Mok Heng Ngee (hnmok@smu.edu.sg, tel 96630214), Instructor, SIS/SMU.