Does your work require IRB approvals?
If Yes, articulate your detailed IRB strategy.
If No, explain why you don’t need IRB approval and
identify situations when you might need IRB approval.Our work with copra farmers does not require IRB approval. The only thing we need to perform our research and project will be a letter from officials in the Philippines which states what we are doing and that it is okay for us to do our project. A situation that would need IRB Approval could be a project where we are directly working with the farmers and doing research on their direct lives, collecting identifiable information from them. This would require IRB approval because we would collect this information and then have to make sure it won’t be accessible to others who could identify the people that we have surveyed.

Develop an outline for your mid-semester presentations.
What supporting evidence will you provide for each point?
How will you boost your credibility every step of the way?
An outline of our mid-semester presentations will first start with an outline of what the copra project is. The project that professor Jedlicka’s team is doing and how this will then impact our project. We can talk about how we are collaborating with the engineers on the team to see what the needs of the people are. We could also use their team to learn about what vendors look for when buying the copra product. From our side of the project, we will be researching many articles regarding the best ways to design and what to include in the copra project creation as well as how the business process of copra in and outside of the Philippines, so that we can make the most efficient item for the farmers.