Date

  • Thursday October 29th

Attendees

Goals

  • Confirm all functions desired by the customer have been identified
  • Confirm selection criteria aligns with customer requirements
  • Determine which existing thermoregulators will be used as benchmarks to evaluate team designs
  • Receive feedback on feasibility analysis to guide future iterations of concept selection and prototyping
  • Gain feedback on current design concepts (system architecture outlines and flow charts)

Agenda and discussion notes

TimeItemWhoNotes
5 min Phase I Follow UpCristina
  • Cite where numbers are coming from for metrics in engineering requirements
5 minReiteration of Problem Statement & Current SystemEleanor
  • Customer agreed with our view of the problem
5 minMarket AnalysisSai
  • Customers identified as research institutes, veterinary centers, or drug studies.
  • Current market identified with four distinct categories
    • Electrical, Circulating, Infrared, or Passive Radiant Warming Devices
10 min System AnalysisEleanor
  •  Customer didn't have complaints with the functional breakdown of the system
10 minConcept SelectionKali
  • Customer has LabView experience.
  • Don't currently use LabView for their procedures
  • Heart Rate Loaded text file
  • Live data visualization in place? Custom software
  • Need to decide on software (LabView, Arduino, or Rasperri Pi)
  • Consider possibility of people adding on to the code in the future (Leaning to python)
  • Stiehl suggested that the water vests would be able to change quicker than we expected
5 minSystem ArchitectureCristina
  • Add labels and differentiation between arrows
  • Add Legend
5 minEngineering AnalysisKatherine
  • Research oximeter options

5 minRisk AssessmentSai
  • Customer didn't have any additional feedback
5 minTest PlanKatherine
  • Customer approved of timeline
5 minUpdated Project PlanKatherine
  • No proprietary plugs

Issues Raised

  • Unclear where metrics were coming from in engineering specifications
  • Ambiguous signals in System Architecture diagram

Decisions Made

  • Will meet with customer to view laboratory set-up

Action items