December 9, 2006

Attended: 28 students

 

Name

Team

1

Eric Moll

Algae to Oil

2

Joanna Morgan

Algae to Oil

3

Lauren Jefferson

Algae to Oil

4

Sanjana Patel

Algae to Oil

5

Brian Finn

Algae to Oil

6

John Coster

Algae to Oil

7

Hillary Eckhoff

Communication

8

Ashley Pospisil

Communication

9

James Fagan

Facilities Engineering

10

John Snyder

Facilities Engineering

11

Ders Hallgren

Facilities Engineering

12

Mike Clapis

Facilities Engineering

13

Sumegh Sodani

Finance

14

Yuk-Ting Li

Finance

15

Christopher Bryant

Finance

16

Jennifer Kelley

Finance

17

Snefali Patel

Finance

18

Chelsea Yalen

Growing Algae

19

Andrea Herrmann

Growing Algae

20

Stephanie Ger

Growing Algae

21

Merril Butowski

Growing Algae

22

Chakardhar Pellakuru

Management

23

Travis Taylor

Management

24

Roger Lu

Oil to diesel

25

Brian Carvalho

Oil to diesel

26

Donias Doko

Oil to diesel

27

Josh Debner

Research and Development

28

Justin Venezuela

Research and Development

 

Overseers: Mr. Mendelssohn, Mr. Lubenstein

 

During this meeting:

Ø        Mr. Mendelssohn discussed the Biofuels Symposium and that anyone who wants to go can get a permission slip from him

Ø        Ms. Russol is willing to come back and help the group or any team that needs individual help

Ø        Group reports

o         Growing Algae

-         has not been able to complete Travis’ requests

-         difficult to keep in touch with the pm students

-         they moved they’re algae tanks to the greenhouse but it is too cold for the algae, they plan to work with the facilities engineering team on this

-         got the growing algae textbook

o         Algae to oil

-         is researching different methods of extracting oil from the algae

-         need work on communication with the pm students

o         Oil to Diesel

-         ordered basic equipment they needed

-         waiting to learn how to use equipment from research

o         Facilities Engineering

-         working on greenhouse

-         working on building biodiesel processor, and the algae growth system

-         have schematics for cad software for the biodiesel processor

-         waiting on a book to help build the biodiesel processor

o         Communication

-         compiling weekly group reports

o         Research and Development

-         researching LEDs growing algae

-         researching liquid nitrogen to rupture the cell wall

o         Finance

-         organizing the finance team

-         not receiving requests from the teams

-         meeting with am students

Ø        5 S’s - need more organization and clean up of the BDP rooms