Team: 16083 Engineer: Vincent Serianni

Entering Phase: 3

What do I plan on doing to ensure that Team P16083 has a successful Phase 3 review?

1.  Each team member should estimate 5-10 specific tasks that he or she will complete.

2.  When will each task take place? Does sequencing matter?

3.  Estimate the amount of time each task will take – ensure that you are not committing yourself to do 80 hours of critical-path work alone during the next three weeks.

Activity / Sequence/Importance / Time Estimate
Get Project Team involved with the Innovation Center to work with the device as a medical product / High Importance / 3 Hour
Secure Funding for Project if possible from Rheonix by keeping in contact with my boss (CC Team on the Email Thread) / Ideal / 2 Hours
Continue Feasibility by completing mathematical models for each subsystem / Medium Importance / 4 Hours
Get full permission to use incubator in the student projects lab for bacterial cultures / High Importance / 1 Hour
Get background in COMSOL for electric field modeling / Medium Importance / 2 Hours
Research Carbon Embedded Electrodes, speak with Dr. Bailey in more detail if needed / Medium Importance / 3  Hours

You will answer these three questions when you submit at the end of Phase 2.

Activity From Last Block / Completed? / Time Estimate
Secure Funding for Project if possible (BME Department) by meeting with Dr. Phillips and Dr. Lapizco / YES / 3 Hour
Secure Funding for Project if possible from Rheonix by keeping in contact with my boss (CC Team on the Email Thread) / Still Possible / 1 Hour
Research electrode based dielectrophoretics in more detail. This is to better understand the system by which we will be working with. / In Progress / 3 Hour
Setup Experimental Lab by speaking with Michelle Horan about using the student projects lab. This includes specific planning of tests (as shown in the next activity) / In Progress / 1 Hour
Begin writing experimental procedures for some future experiments. Some example may include the characterization of co-cultures. Current thoughts are to use bacteria (i.e. yeast), but other possibilities include mammalian cells. / In Progress / 2 Hours
If the activity above is completed, determining cell membrane characteristics is crucial to determining the voltage/frequencies usable for dielectrophoretics. Fully researching those cells and their properties would be useful for this 3 week block (if possible). It is likely that the cells to be used will not fully be determined by the end of this block / Requires COMSOL / 3 Hours

What did I learn?

I’ve learned a lot in terms of how to lead a team. It takes a lot of organization to get the team working together well. Sometimes you also have to push the team member to continue to work hard when they are busy with other work.

1.  What do I plan on doing to ensure that Team P16083 has a successful Phase 3 review?

I plan to continue to improve my leadership skills. This means getting better at handling situations, as well as having the team stay on top of our work for the entire block.