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Table of Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Mission Statement 1.2 Project Readiness Package 2 Current Working Files 3 General Project Uploads 3.1 Senior Design I 3.2 Senior Design II 4 Design Review Packets 5 Sub-System Pages 6 Wiki Help

Summary

Four million people in the US are taking warfarin (Coumadin) anticoagulation medication for a variety of medical conditions that place them at risk for intravascular blood clot formation including hypercoagulable states, deep venous thrombosis, and atrial fibrillation. Frequent adjustments of warfarin dosing is required in patients starting and often throughout the course of the anticoagulation. Such adjustments are based on the INR measured by a blood test that is usually performed weekly or biweekly for the first several months after anticoagulation is started. In most cases, on the day after the blood test, the physician or the physician's nurse contacts the patient by phone to make dosing adjustments. If a new pill size is required, then the physician (or physician surrogate) must also contact the pharmacy with a new prescription.

Warfarin is available in 9 different milligram sizes: 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5. 6, 7.5, and 10. The warfarin automatic home medication dispenser will provide a one month supply of medication of any unitary dose in the usual range (1 to 15mg dosed once per day.) It will also provide for 0.5 mg increments above 2.5 mg in the same range.

The objective of this project is to create a prototype home medication dispensing device that will supply a one month course of warfarin administration. The prototype will have 4 medication compartments designed to contain the following dose/number of pills combinations (1 mg/31 pills, 2 mg/62 pills, 2.5 mg/32 pills, 5 mg/62 pills) which can be combined to provide unitary doses from 1 to 15 mg per day.

Staffing

Team Member	Discipline	Role	email address
Daniel Phillips	EE	Guide	dbpeee@rit.edu
Kathleen A. Lamkin-Kennard	ME	Consultant	kaleme@rit.edu
Christopher Abramo	ME	Customer Liaison	cca1208@rit.edu
Alan Strandburg	ME	Project Manager	alan.strandburg@delphi.com
Gordon Yeung	ME	Project Coordinator	gcyeung@gmail.com
Ntongho Amin	EE	Support	namin02@yahoo.com
Nicholas Columbare	EE	Budget/Finance	nsc4791@rit.edu
Albert Lam	CE	Test and UI Design	Removed due to UCE harvesting
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Mission Statement

This project will be initiated during the Winter Quarter, 2006-2, with other projects from the Assistive Devices family of projects in the Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track. All projects share a focus of providing a robust system that will facilitate the activities of individuals with a particular physical or medical impairment.

Related Projects

Project	Title	Start Term	End Term
P07000	Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track	2006-1	On-going
P07001	ARC communication board	2006-1	TBD
P07002	Two way communication board	2006-1	TBD
P07003	Mobile Camera Control System	2006-1	TBD

Project Readiness Package

The Project Readiness Page documents customer needs and expectations, project deliverables (including time frame), budget, and personnel / organizations affiliated with the project. It will serve as the primary source of information for students necessary during Phase 0 (Planning) to develop a SD I plan and schedule including specific deliverables and due dates. The Project Readiness Package will also support Faculty evaluation of project suitability in terms of depth, scope, and student / faculty resources by discipline.

The original PRP Word Document

A pdf version can be obtained here

Current Working Files

1-Page Project Summary

Roles & Responsibilities Matrix

Needs Assessment

Tentative SD 3 Week Plan PDF Version

Tentative SD 3 Week Plan Microsoft Project Version

Tentative SD 10 Week Plan PDF Version

Tentative SD 10 Week Plan Microsoft Project Version

QFD

Target Specifications

Current Sorting Technologies

Updated Problem Statement

Function and Subfunction Spreadsheet

Identification and Justification of Critical Subfunctions

Summary of External and Internal Searches

Concept Screening Matrix

Pre-Read Document

Concept Review Presentation

Seminar Review Presentation

Bill of Materials

Design Review Handout (Word)

Design Review Handout (PDF)

Tentative SDII 10 Week Plan ( Microsoft Project)

Tentative SDII 10 Week Plan (PDF)

Pill Dispenser Poster

General Project Uploads

Insert common project paperwork & documentation completed for Senior Design here:

Senior Design I

11-week Project Schedule (Adobe PDF) / 11-week Project Schedule MPP (MS Project)
1-Page Project Summary (MS Word)
Roles & Responsibilities Matrix (MS Excel)
Needs Assessment (MS Word)
Tentative SD 3 Week Plan (Adobe PDF)
Need-Metric Categorization (MS Excel)
Need-Metric Evaluation (MS Excel)
QFD (MS Excel)
Concept Generation (MS Excel)
Functional Block Diagram JPG (JPEG) / Functional Block Diagram (MS Viseo)
Prelim BOM (MS Excel) - please update this & repost as you acquire mat'ls
Budget (MS Excel)- as of 11/3/2006

Senior Design II

Spring Schedule (PDF)

Design Review Packets

Two times per quarter design reviews are conducted to assess the progress of the project. Below are the packets of documentation associated with each review in PDF format:
Winter Design Review 1
Winter Design Review 2
Winter Project Review

Sub-System Pages

Below are pages for each sub-system of our project that are created & run by each of the sub-system leads.
Mechanical Sub-systems
Electrical Sub-systems
Software Sub-systems

Wiki Help

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• Choose the Trak number(P07000 or individual team number P0700x)

Use this link to edit any text type files you have placed in the repository

• Edit by selecting the link name used.

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