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Externally applied pressure can be used to facilitate blood circulation and relieve congestion of soft tissues. This technique has been used for people with circulatory impairment as well as during the milking process for animals. This project explores optimal strategies for congestive relief using bio-physical principles. Strategies currently being focused upon include combinations of pressure levels and temporal schemes. Other interest includes finding methods to quantify congestion.
We are fine-tuning our selected design idea and continuing research on tissue congestion
| Week | Reporting Period Beginning | Activities |
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| 1 | September 7 | Assigned team roles, conducted background research (cow milking process, tissue congestion and the current milking devices), and organized times to meet as a group and with our client. |
| 2 | September 14 | Continued background research, assigned specific research topics to each person, began to brainstorm ideas for a new design, and held initial client meeting. |
| 3 | September 21 | Continued to conduct background research/compiled individual research results, continued brainstroming and developing ideas for design alternatives, began work on the PDS report, made contact with Paul Thompson concering project and held a client meeting. |
| 4 | September 28 | Completed PDS report, continued to research the relief of tissue congestion, continued to brainstorm ideas for the development of a new design. |
| 5 | October 5 | Attended the World Dairy Expo, determined an overall direction for design alternatives, worked on design alternatives, and individually sketched and brainstormed ideas to keep device attached to cow while providing tissue relief. |
| 6 | October 12 | Finalized three design ideas with input from client, created mid-semester PowerPoint presentation, rehearsed presentation. |
| 7 | October 19 | Individually drafted segments of mid-semester report and edited, completed mid-semester report, and completed peer/self evaluations. |
| 8 | October 26 | All members discussed design ideas and how we are going to construct our design and implement it into the UW Milking Lab. |
| 9 | November 2 | We met with Dr. Reinemann to observe the Milking Lab and the milking a cow, found equipment to buid our design, and came up with an outline for testing out congestion relief technique. |
| 10 | November 9 | Re-constructed the experimental layout for testing tissue congestion relief technique, planned a date/time to meet and assemble the prototype milking machin. |
| 11 | November 16 | Thanksgiving Break |
| 12 | November 23 | Finalized the experimental design and built the prototype at the UW-Milking Lab. We then took the prototype to the milking parlor and tested the same cow on two occasions. We used ultra-sound technology to analyze changes in teat wall thickness as incurred by our device. |
| 13 | November 30 | Finished collecting data and graphed results. Created final presentation poster as a team. |
| 14 | December 7 | |
| 15 | December 14 |
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Mid-Semester Presentation (Oct 19 2007, 8387 kb) |
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Product Design Specifications (Oct 24 2007, 101 kb) |
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Experimental Design (Nov 30 2007, 117 kb) |
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Mid-Semester Report (Dec 14 2007, 5847 kb) |
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Final Poster (Dec 14 2007, 440 kb) |
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Final Report (Dec 21 2007, 10908 kb) |
