Yesterday, SurgiGators concluded the fall semester with the System Level Design Review. We were excited to have one of our liaisons, Roberto, in Gainesville for the event. We presented our current design and our plans for prototyping next Spring. Throughout… Read More

This week, SurgiGators worked towards our System Level Design Review – both the report and presentation. We finished our 40+ page document highlighting our research and current design plans. Today in class, we presented our SLDR presentation to a group… Read More

Yesterday was Prototype Inspection Day at UF. We presented our overall design and current progress to four groups of judges. We received lots of positive feedback and suggestions from the judges and our peers and will ensure we consider that… Read More

This week, SurgiGators continued working towards Prototype Inspection Day! Each day was filled with more trial and error as we fit the pieces together to generate suction, fill a container, and display information on the user interface. We had fun… Read More

The SurgiGators have been busy working toward Prototype Inspection Day – here is a quick update on what we have been working on! We have taken a deeper dive into existing models of Waste Management Systems We have several CAD… Read More

Today was undoubtedly our most exciting day as we presented our Preliminary Design Review to Arthrex in Naples, Florida! We got to meet our liaisons in person, as well as other engineers, project managers, and even the president of Arthrex.… Read More

This past week, we focused on our drafts for the Preliminary Design Review – Report and Presentation. We presented a shortened version of our PDR Presentation to our peers on Tuesday. We received excellent feedback modified our slides accordingly. We… Read More

This week, we began looking into the specifications required for our project by working on our in class assignments, which included listing customer needs, system specifications, house of quality, and technical performance measures. We also created an overall roadmap and… Read More

We are excited to introduce our team name: SurgiGators! We chose this team name and logo because it reflects the surgical devices and logo of our sponsor company, Arthrex. This week, we presented our name, logo, and project to the… Read More

Hello and welcome to our blog page! This week, we were assigned our project to create a Waste Management System with Arthrex. We spent the week getting to know each other and learning more about our project. Here’s a little… Read More