Spring Semester

Blog Post #27

Last week marked the IPPD’s final event, the Final Design Review. The event was very well planned and included interesting panelists and lost of fantastic food. Beyond this, the event allowed us to showcase our work in front of representatives… Read More

Blog Post #26

This week in IPPD, we listened to guest speaker Mark Sanders from our project sponsor,  Raytheon Technologies. The talk was titled “From College to Career – Success Tips for the New Engineer” and discussed a variety of tips for new… Read More

Blog Post #25

This week in IPPD we listened to guest speaker Dr Elif Akçali, Associate Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering, who talked about storytelling. The presentation was extremely engaging, interactive, and did a great job at teaching us to tell stories… Read More

Blog Post #24

This week in IPPD, we presented a demo of Hacker Jeopardy at Prototype Inspection & Test Evaluation Day. The event was extremely useful and helped us identify a few key areas that can easily be modified to greatly improve user… Read More

Blog Post #23

This week in IPPD, we began preparing for Prototype Inspection & Test Evaluation Day. Our current plan for this event is to show off our progress on Hacker Jeopardy 2.0 and demo all of the new features we have been… Read More

Blog Post #22

This week in IPPD, we listened to guest speaker Dr Denise R SImmons who discussed leadership in engineering. The talk was very informative and discussed various valuable topics such as the distinction between leadership and management. Outside of class, we… Read More

Blog Post #21

This week in IPPD, we presented our progress at the QRB2 event. The presentation went smoothly and this event provided us with insightful feedback. Outside of QRB2, we have made great progress on Hacker Jeopardy 3.0. First, we have finished… Read More

Blog Post #20

This week in IPPD, we listened to guest speaker Yvette Carter, who serves as the Chief Inclusion Officer at Gainesville Regional Utilities. The focus of the discussion was on implicit bias or biases that we didn’t even know we had.… Read More

Blog Post #19

This week in IPPD we continued working on implementing our new team joining page and began researching the implementation of an in-game chat box. The concept above pictures a wireframe prototype for the team joining page generated earlier this week.… Read More

Blog Post #18

This week in IPPD we continued working on implementing our new team joining page. The concept above pictures a raw html prototype for this page generated earlier this week. The new page will contain a team name and password login… Read More

Blog Post #17

This week in IPPD, we gave our QRB 1 Presentation. Through this event, we were able to showcase our plan for the semester as well as our current progress on the project in front of a panel of experts. By… Read More

Blog Post #16

This week in IPPD we were able to present our project plan for the semester to the class. This was extremely useful, and will help us as we prepare for our QRB1 event this upcoming Tuesday. In preparation for the… Read More

Blog Post #15

This week in IPPD we had our first class session of the Spring semester. For class this week we were asked to synthesize a few documents representing our plan for the semester and present them to the class. Specifically, we… Read More