What an end….Our liaisons Alex and Elizabeth drove up from Naples to attend our official SLDR presentation this week, preceded by a few hours of networking and a phenomenal guest speaker, Quang T. The preliminary events were such a wonderful… Read More

Though the peer review SLDR was a great opportunity to develop our presentation skills and hear about other awesome projects, we continued to reach out to our coach and liaison specifically afterwards for additional improvement. Based on their feedback, we… Read More

This week we teamed up with team members and coaches from MaeChem Silanes and PolarFlow Optics to conduct the peer review System Level Design Review (SLDR). Our team had a great time presenting as well as listening to the other… Read More

In this week, the team reached a major milestone in presenting our prototype on Prototype Inspection Day (PID). We showcased a functioning prototype for the product in addition to our testing hardware and methodology. We were fortunate to gain feedback… Read More

This week, the team continued to make progress in prototyping as we rapidly approach PID next week. We’ve begun implementing many of the feedbacks provided during PDR, including the building of a testing system as shown with the linear actuator… Read More

After presenting our PDR to Arthrex in Naples, we returned to Gainesville ready to move forward with our project. We received wonderful feedback from the engineers and project managers who attended our PDR, and we compiled the feedback into workable… Read More

Last Friday (10/20/23), we presented our Preliminary Design Review at the Arthrex headquarters in Naples, FL to our liaison, Alex, several other engineers, and a few product managers. We had a great discussion with the attendees and received wonderful feedback… Read More

SurgiGauge is going places. This week SurgiGauge finalized our product architecture and ordered parts to begin prototyping our initial design. We also began drafting slides for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentation and received valuable feedback from our coach, liaison,… Read More

In our fourth week as team SurgiGauge, we attended a Team Building Workshop that included a Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certification course held by Florida Power & Light (FPL). The course introduced us to the Lean Six Sigma methodology… Read More

During the third week, SurgiGauge looked to the future. We began initial concept generation for the drill attachment design in preparation for our upcoming Preliminary Design Review (PDR). After conducting background research and drawing out ideas, we gathered our concepts… Read More

Through our second week, the team completed the remaining groundwork for our project. We created a logo for our team (see below)! We had the opportunity to meet with our liaison engineer Alex Hild, who has been with Arthrex for… Read More

Welcome to SurgiGauge’s blog page! Though our first lecture had been delayed due to Hurricane Idalia, we were ready to hit the ground running this week after being assigned to work with Arthrex on a Drill Attachment System. Our plan… Read More