WEEK 2

Week 2 (April 12th, 2017 - April 19th , 2017)

        This week, Nneoma, Tyler, Sofia and Youssef were able to gather more intel about colonoscopy and our pneumatic and  magnetic colonoscopy design. On 15th April, 2017, Tyler Banas had the opportunity to interview Dr. John Volpe, who specializes Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine. Dr. Volpe educated on us on his personal experience with giving colonoscopies throughout the years. We were fortunate to see a real colonoscope and its various parts. From this encounter, we learnt that our colonoscope, in a practical sense will go through the anus in order access the colon and analyze its parameters.
     We were also able to interview Dr. Hisham A Abdel-Aal, a professor at Drexel University, who takes interest in researching High-Speed Machining and Bio-based design. Dr. Abdel-Aal helped us analyze the mathematical aspect of our design. With his help, we were able to understand the concept of Reynolds Number, fluid velocity and Froude's Number and their relevance to our design. Dr.Abdel-Aal stressed the importance of persistence and trial and error. As an engineer, we shouldn't give up easily when things don't go well at first. Dr. Abdel-Aal's words of encouragement and knowledge were inspiring and informative. 
     This week we also ordered  magnets that were suitable for our design. Unfortunately, the magnets we ordered not not truly magnetic so we had to resort to the magnets made available in the Innovation Studio and the Bosonne Engineering Lab. Thankfully, these magnets were powerful. 
    Overall, this week was a very progressive week and we were able to work together towards developing and improving our pneumatic and magnetic colonoscope.