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BYU IS Junior CoreIntegrated Exercises (INTEX)

The Crucible of Systems Integration

INTEX represents the ultimate test of Brigham Young University's Information Systems program. At the end of each semester in the Junior Core, students spend an intensive, high-pressure week building an integrated enterprise system with the members of their team of 4, implementing everything they had learned together in all of their classes up to that point.

5 DaysExecution Time
60+ HrsPer Team Member
4 CoursesIntegrated per Project
PanelJudged Presentation

The Junior Core Academic Journey

The BYU MISM and Bachelor of IS curriculums structure the first-year Junior Core around deep technical integration. Rather than studying development, database normalization, networks, and analytics in silos, students are trained to view them as highly coupled aspects of a single engineering enterprise.

INTEX I tests students' foundations: database consistency, client-server web programming, automated security certificates, and profiling social trends.

INTEX II pushes into corporate complexity: enterprise C# compilation, object-oriented application architecture, cryptographic multi-factor security, predictive data classification (ML), and agile project mastership under the Scrum framework.

Progression Timeline

01

First Semester Courses

IS 402 (SQL/Postgres) • IS 403 (Node/JS) • IS 404 (Networks) • IS 415 (EDA Python)

I

Provo Mental Health Survey

Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS Beanstalk deployment, and Tableau dashboards.

02

Second Semester Courses

IS 401 (Scrum/PM) • IS 413 (.NET/C#) • IS 414 (Security) • IS 455 (Machine Learning)

II

Aurora Bricks Store & Fraud Detection

ASP.NET Core MVC, ONNX Runtime, MFA logins, and similarity recommendation engine.