This week was a busy, yet exciting week for our team. After having run through our Preliminary Design Report (PDR) presentation in class last week, we were focused on our final PDR presentation to Newell Brands this week. On Monday, we had the pleasure of presenting our PDR to our liaison engineers and some of the leadership for Newell Brands. We loved being able to share our ideas and concept generation with everyone. We dedicated lots of time and effort to this project and presentation, so we were extremely excited when it came time to give the actual PDR presentation over Microsoft Teams.  

In addition to our PDR presentation, this week we focused on product testing. We have been working diligently to gather as much data and perform as much research as possible. Each member of the team has individually been testing and conducting their own research. Our next phase is reverse engineering. We are excited to get our hands on the products Newell Brands sent us last week and start to break down the machines into their components to understand how each machine works. We are excited to continue testing and reverse engineering in the coming weeks! This is going to have a huge impact on our first prototype and overall design of our project. Here’s a video we found to help us understand the importance of reverse engineering!