March 26: All parts have arrived, and a majority of the fabrication has been completed.  

March 4: After a delay in the ordering of parts, all items have been ordered with some having already arrived allowing some testing and construction to take place.

February 6: The team meets with the Dean for a second time and receives the requested budget extension.

February 28: The team returns from winter break with everything in order to propose to the Dean.

December 12: The team completed and submitted the final report to the BME faculty as well as the team’s adviser Dr. Paliwal.

December 4: The team presented the almost finalized design to Dr. Steven Schriener, the Dean of the School of Engineering at TCNJ.  Dr. Schriener requested to see the completed design after the team tweaked a few concerns.

November 11: The team has begun narrowing the design and refining the amount of cables and components needed to function as intended.  The team hopes to present a proposal for funds to the dean in early December.

November 2: The energy harvesting component is now incorporated in the design to maintain a charge in the emergency power supply.

October 31: The team presented the work completed thus far to both the Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering departments at the interim design presentations.

October 22: After returning from the BMES conference in Atlanta, Kyle has contact information for several researchers working on similar projects.  Emails were sent to introduce ourselves and learn more about these other projects.  

October 19: With a few weeks of research completed, the team began writing the design specifications for the device.  In preparation for the interim design presentation at the end of the month.

October 3: The team complied standards from ASTM, FDA, and ISO that are relevant and must be followed in the design and testing of our device.

October 1: The team met with Dr. Nicholas Ratamess from the Health and Exercise Science department at TCNJ to discuss the use of the Vicon Motion Capture for the testing of the device next spring.

September 24: In the midst of gathering realistic constraints, the team met with Dr. Paliwal for suggestions on where information could be found and how to analyze different aspects such as environmental impact.

September 19: A set of preliminary requirements were presented the the Biomedical Engineering department for criticism and advice. 

September 17: The team completed many of the design requirements and presented them to Dr. Paliwal for advice and suggestions before the Wednesday presentation.  

September 10: The team presented a preliminary timeline to the project adviser Dr. Manish Paliwal for approval.

September 5: The team presented the project to the Mechanical Engineering department at The College of New Jersey to receive additional advice on the general aspects of the project moving forward.

August 31: The team met for the first time of the new semester to begin laying out design requirements of the device.