Title Disabled Patient Positioning System Names Hani Bou Reslan Communicator Joel Rotroff Weblord Client Professor Frank Fronczak Snoop aka Tom Pearce BSAC Ben Moga Leader Dates 2 4 2 17 Problem Statement The medical field is seeking improved methods of providing for patients who use wheelchairs There are two possible problems to solve Problem 1 A platform device is desired that enables wheelchair users access to health care procedures The device should have two degrees of freedom rotation of 360 degrees and vertical translation from 3 9 above the floor This device should be motorized transportable easy to use and safe Problem 2 In some cases it is necessary to weigh a patient at least once a day to aid in diagnosis Persons with disabilities using a wheelchair often have difficulty weighing themselves using common scales because of the wheelchair and positioning issues It would be beneficial for the patient to be weighed directly in their wheelchair or possibly in a bed Restatement of Team Goals To get the Disabled Patient Positioning System DPPS translating vertically by Feb 12 for the Schoof s competition Individual Goals Snoop Construction Design Joel Market Research Rotational Motor Hani Manufacturing Costs Ben Getting a Patent Design Summary of Accomplishments We have the prototype moving up and down it took a lot of time and energy Relection of Schoof s at the end of report Statement of Team Goals Focus on obtaining a patent for the DPPS This means concentrating our efforts not mainly on the prototype but on selling the idea Project Schedule Date Goals Activities 12 February Schoof s Competition Do our best get slammed learn a lot 5 March Mid semester Presentation 12 March Report Lab Books due Oh Yeah 30 April Poster Final Prototype due No problemo 5 May Written report Do really good Difficulties There are alignment issues due to the wheels fitting properly in the tracks However it can be easily remedied by making the wheels a little bigger and adding extra c clamps Activities Team Hani 37 5 Snoop 61 Joel 35 Ben 65 Totals Hani 56 5 Snoop 91 5 Joel 50 Moga 98 Schoof s reflection section Joel We were encouraged to join but the BME design classes do not emphasize the marketing and industry aspect of the competition He suggests that there should be more emphasis placed on this in design class and that seniors should have more freedom in choosing their own projects based on client interviews and or creating a brand new device with no specific clientele attachments Snoop It hurts the BME participants that our projects are solicited from outside sources and so the creativity innovation is not expressed at the same level Hani Schoof s is for creativity we were hit hard Moga This was a good experience not only on an individual basis but on a departmental level as well It is apparent that our design classes are very good at teaching us the design process However there is also an apparent weakness in the program from a marketing side Distribution total cost available market competition etc are all very pertinent issues to success of a biomedically engineered product Joel s idea of giving the seniors more freedom to choose or even to create their own projects is a good one Engineers need to learn more than just the design aspect because at a bare minimum engineers must understand the marketing process to be an efficient part of such a process What hurt us the most is the stage that we are at with our project We hammered out the prototype just in time to find out that even WARF has serious questions pertaining to our design submission Schoof s was an eye opener the drug dispenser group can testify to that If BME is serious about being competitive in the Schoof s competition things need to be changed A whole new business perspective was opened before my eyes in just two short days The lesson learned was a hard one perhaps that can be remedied in the future On a more personal group orientated note We are weak in the area of market availability Part of it was assuming that there was a market out there since this project was basically handed to us as a national design competition The bottom line is we need to patent this With no IP backing this could end up just another cool project that a lot of energy was poured into for solely educational purposes To patent the DPPS we need to clarify the design innovations that set it apart and prove that there is a market out there worth spending the money on to get a patent Peace Out
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