Our Mission

As the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical - Florida State University College of Engineering (FAMU-FSU COE) seniors chosen to participate in such an exciting and demanding project, we feel it is our mission to comply with the demands of the customer. However, while designing and constructing the prototype for the mechanism, we feel obligated to the consumer: to satisfy their needs first and foremost. 

Need Statement

The need statement given to us as engineers reads as follows: 

Design a device that will help the patient test, contact the MD, receive a prescription, and take the correct dosage of medicine while the patient is at home, by utilizing the internet technology and disease management system at Point-of-Care (POC).

The expected deliverables are as follows:

1. To design a drug dispensing mechanism

2. To integrate the blood testing mechanism to the system.

3. To design and construct a working prototype of the system

Scope

From this, the project scope was obtained, which outlines our project basics:

This project consists of the design of an in-home drug-dispensing device, which will consist of a blood testing apparatus, computer and electrical components, and four drug-dispensing mechanisms.  Outlining our objectives: a previously designed testing cell samples the users blood.  Data is obtained from this sampling and, via Internet, uploaded and reviewed by INRange. Prescription data is sent (via Internet) to the device, which dispenses the proper dosage of pharmaceuticals.

The three engineering disciplines participating in the project are; mechanical, electrical and industrial.  The mechanical engineers are responsible for the design of a pill dispensing mechanism, the electrical engineers are responsible for control and the industrial engineers are responsible for device ergonomics and manufacturability. 

These three groups will work in concert to design and build the drug-dispensing device prototype.