Weekly Progress Reports (see sidebar), the Gantt chart, and this Project Management page should be printed out before meetings with the sponsor and instructor.
All team members should be able to explain all items on the progress report.
Place a "*" at the beginning of the title of the active week Progress Report (see * in sidebar).
Project Objectives
High Priority Objectives:
Develop a fixture or process that can automatically sort mosquitoes based on gender.
Capacity at 1500 pupae/week.
Second Priority Objectives:
Allow for increased amount of pupae per week so that the immunology lab can ship more pupae to other research labs
Other Constraints and Issues:
Must not harm pupae because physical damage may result in stagnation of evolution of pupae
Sort at least 1500 pupae per week to match current capacity
Completely automated process allows researchers to spend valuable time more efficiently
Accuracy of 85% or more to ensure consistency and validation of pupae research results
WOW Design Solution:
To sort mosquito pupae without genetic modification
Risk Reduction Strategy
Hardware Test:
Verify that camera has enough resolution/pixels to accurately sort using images
Minimize harms on pupae sample and reduce clogging
Determine most optimal flow speed and distance to accurately weed out male pupae
Theoretical Test:
Lifetime of motor/pump under long operation hours
Stream of water flow for appropriate flow rate
Intermediate Milestones
Experiments on lethality done/Acquire green fluorescent protein (GFP) (Jan. 17, wk 2)
Program computer vision system (Jan. 24, wk3)
Finalized design (Jan. 31, wk4)
CAD and FBD analysis
Buy parts
Fabrication and Assembly (Feb. 14, wk6)
Test Design (Feb. 28, wk8)