This week, our team reached the end of our first semester! All of the progress we’ve made throughout the semester culminated this Tuesday with our System Level Design Review (SLDR). After our trial run last week with our fellow IPPD-ers… Read More

With just two weeks left in the semester, Simplicitea came back from Thanksgiving break with a lot of work to do, and little time to do it. In terms of the System Level Design Review (SLDR) report, the team updated… Read More

During PID we also displayed both a physical 3D printed model of a component and a 3D rendering of the overall product. Our experimentation data was also presented with positive feedback. Our mechanical team focused heavily on having the model… Read More

Prototype Inspection Day (PID) is one week away! The team has been hard at work developing a preliminary prototype capable of showcasing the progress we’ve made throughout the many weeks of research and experimentation. Our liaison engineers were able to… Read More

This week was a huge step in the right direction for furthering our prototype development. Our two sub teams, mechanical and electrical/computer science, met separately to reverse engineer two of the machines provided to us by our liaison engineers. Those… Read More

This week continued the excitement for our team.  After a successful PDR presentation last week, this week we finished acquiring all of the required signatures from our team, IPPD staff, and Newell Brands. With the support of IPPD and our liaisons, we’re excited to now shift away from the… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Experimentation and Reverse Engineering This week the majority of our products from Newell Brands have arrived! We have begun to layout our plans for reverse engineering the products. To facilitate we’ve split our group in two parts: Mechanical analysis (Leah,… Read More

Concept generation and Experimentation! This week has been full of concept generation and planning for our testing phase. After creating several concepts for our product and discussing them, we realized that there are so many questions that can only be… Read More

This week was a busy yet successful time for Team 7! The theme of the week was individual concept generation. We wanted to focus our week on how we each thought the process and prototype should work and what components… Read More

This week was a very exciting week for the team as we started working on our concept generation process. Every member of the team had time to write down some different design ideas regardless of how big or how small the idea… Read More

This week we focused on forming a deeper understanding of the processes involved in making our specialty beverage maker as well as setting the groundwork for our team’s project management style. In terms of researching, we experimented with making the specialty beverage at home. This gave us insight into the different factors such as… Read More

This week was one of many “firsts” for our team. We had our first meeting as a design team, our first look at our project’s Scope of Work, and our first meetings with both our faculty advisor and corporate liaisons from Newell Brands. Beyond this, we brainstormed and agreed… Read More