DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTERIZED GRANT SYSTEM TO HANDLE RESEARCH GRANT DETAILS OF NSF

Abstract

The National Science Foundation awarding grants for scientific and technological researches in Sri Lanka. These grants are intended to provide the assistance to supplement the financial, physical and manpower resources available for scientific research in the scientist’s own institutions. The research grants are handled by the research division, one of the key divisions in the National Science Foundation and all financial matters are recorded by the financial division while National Science library and resource center is maintaining the information related to all research grants. The aim of this project was to develop a user friendly software system to handle all the information related to the research grants in a computer system. Initially the feasibility study was carried out to find out the feasible way to implement the system. After that the functional requirements were collected by interviewing the Accountant, Management people and some potential users of the system. Also sampling of existing documentation and forms. Then the database was developed using MS SQL 2000 Server to meet the functional requirements. All User Interfaces in the system were designed using MS Visual Basic (VB6.0).Finally the database and interfaces were connected using ADO Data Control. There After the system subjected to both unit testing and system testing. The final system was more user friendly and efficient to handle all the information related to the research grants. The system contains eight forms and one database with three tables.