We’ve reached the halfway point of semester one of IPPD! Our team worked hard to complete the Preliminary Design Report and compile its content into a concise presentation for Newell Brands next week! The report captures all of our progress thus far, including our in depth analysis on the scope of work, extensive research through our literature review, and the beginning stages of concept generation. After receiving valuable feedback from our peers and project coaches, we have implemented several changes in the presentation, and are looking forward to putting our best foot forward in next week’s presentation.

In even more exciting news, all of our requests from Newell Brands, as well as our ingredient orders have officially arrived safely in our locker. After designing a series of experiments, we are super excited to get started with testing, with the hopes of answering those crucial questions that we formed in our initial concept generation phase! Additionally, next week we will shift our focus to dissecting the Mr. Coffee products we received. By reverse engineering a wide variety of beverage makers, our team will develop a stronger understanding of the inner mechanisms, both mechanical and electrical, of these household products. This will make a huge impact on our designs as we progress through the concept generation phase.