Even with the SLDR event behind them, the DesiGators are committed to finishing the semester strong and continuing their progress on the dehydrator. A ton of new parts came in this week, the most notable of which is the table!… Read More

You read the title right, Tuesday marked the most important day of the Fall semester for the DesiGators – the System Level Design Review. The event is an opportunity for the team to showcase their hard work over the past… Read More

The DesiGators hit the ground running after a very productive Thanksgiving Break. The team presented their Peer Review System Level Design Review (SLDR) on Tuesday with both the 3-Delish and Parrotronix teams in attendance. The team got some amazing feedback… Read More

As the holiday season begins and the semester begins to end, the DesiGators extend warm wishes to everyone for a joyful holiday season! We are especially thankful to our coach, Dr. Philip Jackson, and our liaison, Dr. Andrew MacIntosh, whose… Read More

The focus of the week for the DesiGators was Prototype Inspection Day, an event where the team could show off their hard work to panels of judges and get feedback on their system and progress. On the day, the DesiGators… Read More

The DesiGators found their home away from home this week in the IPPD labs. The team spent countless hours split between Larry’s Lab, the Wertheim Prototyping Lab, and the FSHN lab working hard to get their prototypes built and ready… Read More

The key to making any team excel is getting along with the people you work with. The more comfortable you get with your team, the more safe you will feel admitting when you need help or when you made a… Read More

The DesiGators followed up their PDR presentation with an exciting week full of progress on multiple fronts. First on the list – the team earned their certificates for earning first place in the Six Sigma White Belt training! The certificates… Read More

The DesiGators’ weeks of hard work finally came to fruition with their PDR presentation! The team presented their design plans and project roadmap to an interdisciplinary group of faculty members from the University of Florida Department of Food Science and… Read More

The DesiGators started the week with their Peer Review PDR Presentations. This was the team’s first opportunity to showcase their work on the project through a formal presentation. The event was a great opportunity to see how other teams were… Read More

After the coach meeting this week, Virginia took the lead on teaching a crash course on how to use GitHub to collectively edit code for the psychrometric chart programs. Virginia’s efforts have made tremendous progress on the code for the… Read More

The DesiGators hard at work solving various thermodynamics problems for their food dehydrator. Photos by: Korynn Haetten Happy Homecoming! The four-day week meant the DesiGators didn’t have the chance to meet with their liaison this week, but that doesn’t mean… Read More

The DesiGators joined the rest of their IPPD cohort to attend the Team Building Workshop and White Belt Six Sigma Training presented by Florida Power & Light. The event was centered around process improvement and eliminating wasteful practices. The DesiGators… Read More

The DesiGators began their liaison meeting with lots on the agenda and the coffee to get through it. The brew of the day was a delicious, Yemeni roast with chocolate undertones (as seen above). Dr. MacIntosh took the reins for… Read More

The name of the game this week for the DesiGators was napkin drawings! This week the DesiGators ramped up their conceptualization efforts and focused on making even more potential designs for their food desiccation system. The team worked through dozens… Read More

We had our first opportunity to meet with our project liaison, Dr. Andrew J. MacIntosh! We discussed the scope of work, explored the background of the drying process, and talked about how the food desiccator would be used to teach… Read More