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Private Industry

Automated Flow Cytometry

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Designed, developed, and delivered an automated precision control of optical, fluidic, photonic, and mechanical flow cytometry devices enabling increased production and single cell sorting performance while also reducing required operational resources.

Sponsor: Private Industry Partner

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Data Fusion, Data Analytics
Industries: Private Industry, Agriculture

DFA Gold Standard / Protect Our Brand
Dairy Farmers of America

Photo of a dairy cow overlayed with an iPad displaying a custom animal assessment form developed for the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA).

Deployed a cross-platform mobile data collection app and form framework for the largest dairy cooperative in the U.S. to synchronize databases, implement two data collection forms, implement action plans for continuous improvement, and other user enhancements such as auto-answering triggers, photo capture, signature capture, autofill, and GPS location capture.

Sponsor: Dairy Farmers of America

Competencies: Data Visualization, Data Analytics, Mobile Data Collection
Industries: Agriculture, Non-Profits, Private Industry

NDFP
National Dairy FARM Program

Photo of a cow overlayed with an iPad displaying the National Dairy FARM Program (NDFP) data collection, analysis, and reporting system.

A data collection, analysis, and reporting system to support industry-wide animal care and environmental stewardship assessments. It provides a cross platform mobile app for on-farm data collection, a data management system for configuring the system, and a reporting and analysis system all developed around a centralized database. In use by over 1,000 evaluators to conduct assessments across 160+ dairy cooperatives and processors spanning over 40,000 facilities across all 48 continental US states representing 98% of the U.S. milk supply.

Sponsor: National Milk Producers Federation

Competencies: Data Visualization, Data Analytics, Mobile Data Collection
Industries: Agriculture, Non-Profits, Private Industry

Poultry Depopulation Decision Support Tool

A photo inside a chicken production barn overlayed with a laptop displaying the data entry screen for the poultry depopulation decision support tool.

A decision support tool for assessing supplemental heat requirements in barn depopulation during a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak.

Sponsor: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY)

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Decision Support
Industries: Agriculture, Private Industry

US-RSPE Sustainability Framework

A data management and reporting system that enables implementation of the US-RSPE Sustainability Framework, to include: 1) submission of US-RSPE Framework sustainability assessments across the egg, broiler, and turkey sectors, 2) permissions-based viewing of submitted data, and 3) generation of data visualizations and reports that highlight continuous improvement (year over year) and organization comparison with their sector(s).

Sponsor: U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry & Eggs (US-RSPE)

Competencies: Data Visualization, Data Analytics
Industries: Agriculture, Non-Profits, Private Industry