Majors should be provided in a drop down list

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Is free form text entry really the best way to collect the information about 
the individuals major?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jjhatf02 on 18 Oct 2010 at 3:35

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My suggestion would be to make a public static array of string in the 
ConferenceAttendee object.  This array would store all of the potential options 
for the major.  The major will still be stored as a string so there shouldn't 
need to be any major changes to the object, most of this work will be done in 
the addattendee and editattendee JSP files.

Last year the list of majors that were provided were as follows:
Aerospace Engineering/Engineering Mechanics
Biological/Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical/Computer Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Petroleum/Geology/Geosystems Engineering

I'm not really a fan of that list because it combines some majors and leaves 
some other majors completely off.  You can use that list for now, but we may 
want to talk to some people about getting an updated list.

For now, we do not need to add the ability to have an "other" option unless you 
feel really adventurous.

Original comment by jjhatf02 on 18 Oct 2010 at 4:10

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This issue was closed by revision r117.

Original comment by makie...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2010 at 6:33

• Changed state: Fixed