Earlier this week, SurgiGators presented our Qualitative Review Board #1 to a panel of IPPD staff and coaches. We provided current updates on our project and our future plans and timelines. We received lots of positive feedback and a few suggestions regarding the 3D printing and molding of our components. Overall, we are making great progress and will continue steadily working on our prototype.
SurgiGators have continued working on our individual and team tasks towards our final prototype.
We are most excited to have power to the pump through the connectors that Carson ordered! We have also made steady progress on the canister design, manifold locking mechanism, and regulator selection.
We present our project updates and future plans to be judged by IPPD staff and coaches at our first Qualitative Review Board.
Following about a month of winter break, SurgiGators are back and working on our project!
Each team member is actively working on their tasks, with plans to begin the integration of components in February.
The first resin print of the manifold has been completed and tested, the connectors to power the pump are ordered, the user interface is up and running, the E-tape is ordered, and the canister design is making progress.
Yesterday, SurgiGators concluded the fall semester with the System Level Design Review. We were excited to have one of our liaisons, Roberto, in Gainesville for the event. We presented our current design and our plans for prototyping next Spring.
Throughout the past 16 weeks, SurgiGators have evolved both as an academic team and as friends. Our final blog post of 2022 will highlight our team dynamics through the social media app BeReal. This app encourages users to “be real” by taking a front and back photo when a daily notification goes off. This notification frequently goes off while SurgiGators are together, and some of our favorites are posted below.
This week, SurgiGators worked towards our System Level Design Review – both the report and presentation. We finished our 40+ page document highlighting our research and current design plans. Today in class, we presented our SLDR presentation to a group of our peers for feedback.
We are excited for our System Level Design Review with our liaisons in Gainesville on December 6th.
Yesterday was Prototype Inspection Day at UF. We presented our overall design and current progress to four groups of judges. We received lots of positive feedback and suggestions from the judges and our peers and will ensure we consider that throughout the next phase of our design.
The remainder of our semester will be focused on our System Level Design Review. This will be a follow up to the PDR, detailing more specifics of our plan for the Spring semester.
Our demo, pictured below, consisted of a bucket of water (our patient), a container (our canister), and a pump. The pump generates suction in the container, which then pulls water from the bucket to the container. In addition, we presented our pressure sensor and basic user interface to show the real-time suction in the container.
This week, SurgiGators continued working towards Prototype Inspection Day!
Each day was filled with more trial and error as we fit the pieces together to generate suction, fill a container, and display information on the user interface. We had fun with lots of laughs in the meantime.
At Prototype Inspection Day, we will be demoing a basic proof of concept for our system, and we look forward to hearing feedback from each of the judges.
The SurgiGators have been busy working toward Prototype Inspection Day – here is a quick update on what we have been working on!
Today was undoubtedly our most exciting day as we presented our Preliminary Design Review to Arthrex in Naples, Florida! We got to meet our liaisons in person, as well as other engineers, project managers, and even the president of Arthrex. We toured the Arthrex facilities, including research areas, machining spaces, and a cadaver lab!
Our presentation was well received, and everyone is thrilled about this project and what it could mean for Arthrex in the future. We are returning to Gainesville feeling inspired and ready to get started on the next phase: prototyping.
We would like to give a huge thank you to Randy, Roberto, Chris, Mike (x2), Reinhold, Jordan, and everyone else who took the time to say hello to us today.
This past week, we focused on our drafts for the Preliminary Design Review – Report and Presentation.
We presented a shortened version of our PDR Presentation to our peers on Tuesday. We received excellent feedback modified our slides accordingly.
We also finished our PDR Report this week. This consisted of the First Month Report as well as the functional architecture, decomposition, and a more in-depth concept generation. We will submit to our coach for approval before bringing this report to Naples for our liaisons to sign off on.
Next week, we will finalize these deliverables in preparation to go to Arthrex on Monday, October 24.
