I would say that our team is coming together pretty well.
This is our current workflow:
1. Attend class, learn from professors, and see what we need to focus on for the week
2. Communicate through our group chat about what needs to done (send out emails to contact professors, research, or brainstorm independently)
3. Meet up on Sunday afternoons and put all our ideas together and complete any group tasks assigned to us
We have been consistent in following this workflow, and it seems to be working so far. For example, since we had to focus on professors for the previous weeks, we assigned leads for the two different patents, and those leads would be in charge of contacting the professors and setting up an appointment to talk. Then those leads would communicate the information to the rest of the team.
So far, we've had some trouble talking to professors. We were supposed to talk to one of the professors today, but he was not at his office hours, so we scheduled another time to talk on the phone with him. We will be meeting with the professor of the other patent this week.
Since this week was customer research, when we met up, we all put our brainstorming ideas together to figure out our product and who we could sell to.
Our main patent is the greywater reuse system that is integrated with a thermal heating and cooling system.
Our backup patent is a more efficient way to produce biofuels using cyanobacteria.
For the greywater reuse system we are planning on turning that into a product that we could sell to construction companies to implement into the buildings that they are building, because it is much easier to install this way. This system saves money on water and energy use, so home buyers would be interested in a house with this technology.
For the cyanobacteria patent, we have a couple different potential avenues we are planning to sell to. They are as follows: drivers with flexible fuel vehicles, cyanobacteria companies/energy companies, also government agencies in charge of energy and water.
This is our current workflow:
1. Attend class, learn from professors, and see what we need to focus on for the week
2. Communicate through our group chat about what needs to done (send out emails to contact professors, research, or brainstorm independently)
3. Meet up on Sunday afternoons and put all our ideas together and complete any group tasks assigned to us
We have been consistent in following this workflow, and it seems to be working so far. For example, since we had to focus on professors for the previous weeks, we assigned leads for the two different patents, and those leads would be in charge of contacting the professors and setting up an appointment to talk. Then those leads would communicate the information to the rest of the team.
So far, we've had some trouble talking to professors. We were supposed to talk to one of the professors today, but he was not at his office hours, so we scheduled another time to talk on the phone with him. We will be meeting with the professor of the other patent this week.
Since this week was customer research, when we met up, we all put our brainstorming ideas together to figure out our product and who we could sell to.
Our main patent is the greywater reuse system that is integrated with a thermal heating and cooling system.
Our backup patent is a more efficient way to produce biofuels using cyanobacteria.
For the greywater reuse system we are planning on turning that into a product that we could sell to construction companies to implement into the buildings that they are building, because it is much easier to install this way. This system saves money on water and energy use, so home buyers would be interested in a house with this technology.
For the cyanobacteria patent, we have a couple different potential avenues we are planning to sell to. They are as follows: drivers with flexible fuel vehicles, cyanobacteria companies/energy companies, also government agencies in charge of energy and water.
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