SMUME: Saint Martin's University Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Planner

SMUME is a Python-based tool for visualizing and managing Mechanical Engineering degree plans at Saint Martin’s University. It supports students, advisors, and faculty by offering a flexible and programmable way to define curricula, create student-specific academic plans, and generate dependency-aware flowcharts.

🔧 Features

For Students & Advisors

• Student Plans: Generate a personalized academic plan from a catalog year and start term (e.g., Fall 2024).
• Prerequisite Checking: Automatically detect and highlight missing or improperly sequenced prerequisites, corequisites, and concurrent prerequisites.
• Flowchart Generation: Render academic plans as dependency graphs with color-coded course categories, term clustering, and visual indicators for completion and violations.

For Faculty

• Curriculum Definition: Easily define new curriculum structures using Python—no GUI builder required.
• Generic Plans: Assign default term-by-term layouts for catalog years.
• Extensibility: Add metadata like full course names, notes, and categories (Core, Math/Science, GE, ME, Other).

📁 Project Structure

• smume/curricula/ – Defines catalog year curricula (e.g. _2024_25.py)
• smume/generic_plans/ – Maps courses to default terms
• smume/student_plan.py – Logic for student-specific academic planning
• smume/graph_builder.py – Graphviz-based flowchart generation

📌 Notes

• Term formats are flexible: both Fall and F, and 2025 or 25 are valid.
• Curriculum and plan objects are fully programmable—ideal for integration into other workflows or GUIs.
• Graphs highlight completed courses (gray, checkmarks), unmet dependencies (red), and visually group courses by academic term.

📚 Example

👥 Who It's For

• Students: Visualize and adjust your academic plan semester by semester.
• Advisors: Confirm course sequencing and verify prerequisite compliance.
• Faculty: Define and revise curriculum plans in code with minimal friction.

🛠️ Future Work

• Web frontend
• Support for electives and transfer credit
• Improved drag-and-drop UI for plan adjustment

🚀 Quick Start

Install the package with pip:

pip install smume

For development:

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/smu-curriculum-flowcharts.git
cd smu-curriculum-flowcharts
poetry install

Usage examples:

# Clone and install
poetry install

# Example: generate a graph for the 2024–25 curriculum
poetry run python scripts/generate_generic_graph.py 2024-25

# Example: create and render a student plan
poetry run python scripts/generate_student_graph.py 2024-25 --start-year 2024 --start-term Fall

MIT Licensed · Developed by Dr. Rico Picone and collaborators