P09027 Weekly Status Report – Week 3
9/15/2008 – 9/19/2008
Progress and Feedback
Morning Session: Concept Selection Presentations (9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.)
· (JJ) Joints are the most critical part of the brace design. Benchmarking with the Gypsy is difficult because we can’t see from the picture how the joints work
· Investigate aluminum, applicability: will it make our customer happy?
· (Dr. Phillips) Can you pull up the finalized specs on EDGE?
o (Melissa) No, it is not uploaded yet
o Team should use SVN
o Put documents on EDGE!
· (J. Peyton) Have you considered composites?
o Yes, we have thought about it but not much research has been done
o Melissa can talk to Dr. Ghoneim about the project and get some advice on composites
· Specifications are finalized and uploaded to EDGE
P09004
· (Mark) Have needs and specs laid out in the absolutely necessary
· Work through a process to generate potential solutions and have a mechanism to rank and score to objectively decide the best one
· (Alan) length of time for user, what kind of user? Disabled?
o Imaging science: play games of squash, driving tests
o Dr. Phillips/Dr. Amuso
o (Mark) Multiple stakeholders – must clarify what they want, Dr. Amuso has final say as the customer
· (Dan) where are the new concepts?
o Camera to a $3000 box, only puts two
o Capture EEG and EOG data and synch it up
· (Matt Sones) Requirement: degree of setup for EEG and EOG?
P09007
· System overview: narrow the project scope
· Divided concepts by discipline and discussed
· Chart for mechanical concept generation – front wheel gear system
o Mechanism comparable to start of a lawn mower
o Put something on the pedals? Something on the crankshaft?
o (Joe F) Clarify the concept that “won” the selection matrix
o (Melissa) Focus concept generation on spinning bikes?
o (Dan) Break into bike and install once?
§ Keep install time and cost down
o (Alan) Great product to charge different mp3 players, not so much laptops
o Proof of concept for power generation?
o Don’t burden end user with having to bring the iPod connector/USB cable
· Do a survey at the gym – ask gym users what electronics they would bring in
P09026
· Pump drive concept selection matrix
· Upcoming deliverables?
· Clarify visualization of concept of final project?
· What is the final end product? Get before and after pics, annotate them
· (Ed) Have a common understanding of where you are going
· Themes: iterative process, i.e. WBS, its more than a breakdown of relationships
· Accept the notion of iteration
· May have a great idea, but does the team have the bandwidth?
· Focus in on the deliverable, where will be? Where will you end up?
· Color code specs list green, yellow, red
· (Dr. Phillips) what is an important characteristic of spec?
· Turn the big words into unambiguous
· (Ed) Take away from the process: internalize the tools a lot better when you can see the progress you have made (uploading documents as you work on the project)
Ed Hanzlik: “The truth will soon reveal itself”
· Project progress
o Meeting or missing deliverables
· Learn and use a project delivery process
o Company/situation roadmap to success
o Enable by creative and situation “use” of tools
o Embrace the relationship
o Update and communicate as you navigate the process
o Navigate with a can-do attitude, positive and polite
· Engineers want to be empowered
o Understand the needs/wants/expectations
o Understand the boundary conditions/constraints
o Understand the need and responsibility of management to inspect, guide and correct
· Who are you?
· What do you do?
· Why are you here?
· How valuable are you?
· Credentials BS/MS RIT
· What are your capabilities? Personal and professional?
· You need to demonstrate these in the arena
· Presentations – how are you going to sell your idea?
o Verbal – the message on the slides
§ Organized, factual, meet customers asks
o Voice – how you convey the message
§ Confident, eye contact, engaging
o Visual – how it all looks, the show, you
§ Presentations
§ Posture
§ Personal style
· Two weeks from today: design review
· Wants us to blow away everyone else
Concerns: Project Objectives, Scope, Resources etc.
· Complexity of the brace concept – will we be able to investigate all?
· (Ed) Is the team concerned about week 4 deliverables?
o Yes, we’re afraid the intensity of the brace concept will limit our time next week for a system level design
o We are closer to a system level design for the sensors
· Have not narrowed down the project to a single concept due to further necessary testing of the brace prototype and the shortlisted concepts after today
Action Items for Week 4
Note: the table below is a snapshot of the Excel file located on EDGE homepage
Item # / Description / Responsible / Status / Due DateA014 / Screening and Scoring matrices / All / In progress / End of Friday Week 3
A015 / Team role chart / Melissa / Not started / Mon 9/22/08
A016 / Gant chart for project schedule / Melissa / Not started / Mon 9/22/08
A017 / Download and familiarize with SVN / All / In progress / Mon 9/22/08
A018 / Upload docs into SVN / Melissa / Not started / Mon 9/22/08
A019 / Research final sensors extensively / Pooja, Adey and
Alan / In progress / Fri 9/26/08
A020 / Mechanical integration of sensors / JJ, Pooja and Alan / Not started / Fri 9/26/08
A021 / Contact CS department to discuss animation / Dan / Not started / Fri 9/26/08
A022 / Use BioRadio to test signals from targeted muscles / Adey / Not started / Fri 9/26/08
A023 / Contact Dr Ghoneim / Melissa / Not started / Fri 9/26/08
Schedule for Week 4
Saturday: JJ and Melissa meet, game plan on brace design
Sunday: Pooja and Alan meet for sensor research
Monday: Team meeting, 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.
Tuesday: Melissa one on one meeting with Dr. Brown, 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday: Pooja, Adey and Alan will test targeted muscles with BioRadio; Dan will consult a CS faculty to investigate animation
Thursday: Team meeting with Dr. Brown, 10:00 a.m.
Friday: Present deliverables, 9:00 a.m.
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