Week 8

This week we completed our second round of the tests with the two models. On the windbreaker model, which is the one with a row of shrubs planted next to the field, we increased the height of the shrubs to exactly the height of the crops and higher than the height of the crops. On the Fabric wall model, we did the tests by adding another layer of jute around the model.

Since our Final Report is due next week, we broke down the components among the team members:
Heidi – Introduction
Jon and Achira – Technical Activties
Ami – Results
Anushree – Future work

Meeting Minutes – 24th May 2012
Things that need to be done:


• Buy an anemometer
• Make sure you have some type of professional attire for the presentation
• We should explain how our project solution takes into consideration people, prosperity, planet, and performance for sustainability
• Meeting (anushree, achira, ami)
• Achira will email ami, heidi and Jon about the meeting
• Presentation due june 4th

• Final report due june 10th 


Here's a summary of the lecture for anybody interested.We will consider the following points for the presentation.


• Do we need visuals to explain things better?
• Do not just read off the slides
• Know what's coming next in the presentation slides
• Use slide master
• Use minimal amount of words
• Use slide numbers
• Possibly use progress bar
• Rehearse the presentation
• Have a professional appearance and posture
• Pass around the clicker
• Introduce the next person presenting
• 10 minute presentation and 3 minutes for answering questions
• Intro, body, conclusion
• Make sure you have a back up of any videos on the slides
• Make sure all slides are connected in content and flow

Meeting Minutes – 29th May 2012

So here is what we did in the meeting:
1) Finished the tests: We did the tests with the cotton model, with the barrier as tall as the rice crops and with the barrier taller than the rice crops.
2) Final Report:
So for the final report, the parts are:
   Abstract
  Introduction
  Technical Activities
  Results
  Future Work
  References
So Heidi has taken Introduction, Anushree has taken Future Work, Achira and Jon have the Technical Activities and Ami has the References part. Abstract and References will be done as a group.
We will get our parts for the project ready by Sunday with a few slides on it so that we can submit them on Monday. We can meet up again to modify the slides and make them better later.