This week we were able to send off our NSF proposal! It took a lot of time and muscle, but we are very happy with how it turned out and look forward to seeing what comes of it.
During our meeting, we spent some time discussing how the proposal development process went before Dr. Thomas and Dr. Wallace (members of the Gemstone staff) came to sit in on our meeting. We gave them a general recap on our project and also updates on where we were with it. They were encouraging that we should begin to consider the end of our project, in that we may want to present at conferences or write an academic paper. It is certainly something to think about! All in all I think they were pleased with our progress, but there's still plenty to get cracking on.
With that, we turned our focus towards goals we still needed to complete, including looking into prototype materials and manufacturing; researching other markets where our product could have application; testing other PCMs; working on the COMSOL model/simulation; continuing the icebox experiments; and working on our thesis. I'm pretty stoked to see all of these things come together and can't wait to get a prototype going.
Next week we are foregoing our mentor meeting, since Dr. Shah has to be out, and we're going to do some serious work on these goals. Get excited!
-Kelly
P.S. Matt was awesome and updated our website - check it out!
http://teams.gemstone.umd.edu/classof2012/fresh/
This is the blog of Junior Gemstone Team FRESH, who are optimizing cold box design using PCM for more efficient vaccines transport to developing countries.
For more info on Team Fresh, visit their website
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