In this mentor meeting, we first went over relevant goals and things accomplished over the past week. Matt was able to model water in an open container on Compsol, but not phase change yet. This is a priority goal for Thursday. The sensor team believes conductivity sensing to be the best way to monitor PCM state, but color temperature sensitive labels could be another option/backup. The Ice Box experiment was started on Sunday, with data being collected continuously since. They will look over this data in the coming days. The nontechnical team will look for real world data about how often vaccines ship, how many people are stationed at a center, and how long vaccine shipments take. This information will then be organized into a chart showing a timeline for each step of the cold chain, and we can create a mock protocol for how our container can be shipped and refrozen. The nontechnical team also started benchmarking existing products, and made a google doc with 18 current products. The technical team will look over these products, and will rate them and rank them accordingly. We plan on transferring all our google docs and files to groupspaces soon, and imbedding this blog onto our team website. We concluded this meeting by discussing upcoming goals, such as asking experts about the feasibility of our design, analyzing PCM geometries, benchmarking products, choosing a sensor, and making a detailed cost estimate. We also plan on compiling all of our archived sources.
- Sahil
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