Today our objective was to present our research to the Dean of the College of Health Professions. The individuals that were present at the meeting were Shelley Conroy (Dean), Craig Gundy (Assistant Dean), Alan Lewis (Computer Support), Stephanie Bossenburger-james (Director of the Dental Hygiene Program), and Kami Hanson (Dental Hygiene faculty and Project Mentor). We presented eveyone a packet of our research and our future intentions and ambitions for our project. It contained a detailed summary of the pilot project, which we are doing this summer, including conferences we would like to be funded for and a budget of past expenses and proposal for future expenses. The packet included a student request for funding sections which included funding proposals for travel, project supplies, and a stipend for this summers research. It also included a full detailed project description of the projects multiple phases and long-range goals. The meeting commenced at 10:00 am and lasted for about an hour. We described our project and how and why we got started and how we can progress. We also explained that our project full scale can include other departments at Weber State. The 3d image of a skull can include the full body and can be integrated into the nursing program. The 3d image may be able to be produced through the department of visual arts and the specific software programming can be done through the computer science department. We would like the involvment of any department on campus that wants to contribute to the perfection of Weber States own Human Interface Lab. We also consider the contribution of other departments expertise to be a valuable asset to the completion of the project.

Our goal for the meeting was to plant a seed of our ambitions and to help others recognize how valuable and prestigious our project will be to specific health centered programs at Weber State and to the University as a whole.

Future goals

Continue to research different converters and 3d modelers to render a more detailed image
meet with Brett Shelton at Utah State University to collaborate and know how to further progress
Insert the image into the artoolkit coding for the webcam to recognize and then render a 3d image from a pattern
continue our enthusiasm for the research and its benefits to the University and Dental Hygiene Program