-Archive from the Spring 2002 semester.
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This project's team members's are
Megan Toth (Team Leader)
Joel Roltroff (BESAC)
Herlina Moeljadi (Communications)
Brian Bye (BWIG)
Our client is Julie Kessel, Assistant Professor, Pedriatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works with extremely premature infants of 23-28 weeks gestation. These babies suffer from fluid and electrolyte imbalances in the first week of life with mortality and morbidity. It is important for the doctors and nurses to have accurate records of the infant's fluid levels. The goal of our project is to improve the method of urine collection in preterm infants for the analysis of potassium and sodium levels. The focus for improvement will be on the design of the diaper.
We have formed an inner channel and determined the amount of cotton needed in the diaper. We have completed a prototype and some preliminary testing. We are also preparing our final paper along with a poster presentation on May 10th during the final class period.
Progress
Report Archive.
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Dates
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Activities
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1/25/02- 1/30/02 |
Meet group members, met with client, have clear idea
of project requirements
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1/30/02- 2/5/02
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Research
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2/5/02- 2/12/02
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Begin Project Design Specifications
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2/12/02- 2/18/02
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Finish Project Design Specifications and Brainstorming
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2/19/02- 2/26/02
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Brainstorming
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2/27/02- 3/5/02
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Brainstroming, Narrowing down ideas
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3/6/02- 3/14/02 |
Preparing mid-semester presentations
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3/15/02
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Mid-semester presentations
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3/15/02- 3/23/02
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Continue of Design ideas, final decision
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3/23/02- 3/31/02
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Spring Break (Don't think about BME 201)
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4/1/02- 4/5/02
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Work on design
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4/8/02-4/12/02
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Test absorbancy of cotton, determine the plastic needed
for tubing
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4/15/02-4/19/02
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Make model of inner tubing for thermoforming, cotton
testing
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4/22/02-4/26/02
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Combine cotton with tubing to form final design/prototype
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4/29/02-5/3/02
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Modify and test prototype
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5/6/02-5/10/02
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Test prototype, Prepare Poster
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5/10/02
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Poster Presentations
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5/13/02-5/17/02
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Final Meeting with Advisors
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Project Design Specifications (as of May 10, 2002)
Here are some of our preliminary design possibilities. They are drawings in PDF format.Funnel (370 KB)
Layered Outer Channel Front View(407 KB)
Layered Outer Channel Side View(305 KB)
Layered Inner Channel Front View(357 KB)
Layered Inner Channel Side View (66 KB)
Mid-Semester Presentation(3/15/02)(880
KB)
Mid-Semester Written report(3/15/02)(226 KB)
Final Poster (as powerpoint presentation)(340KB)
Final Paper(451 KB)
(All files are in pdf format except for the mid-semester presentation which
is a powerpoint file)
We can contacted at our project e-mail address.
bme201design@yahoo.com
