Another productive week is complete and the CHAMPS are ready for Final Design Review (FDR) next Tuesday. After the peer review session on April 16, the team avidly updated project deliverables to prepare for the last round of feedback from… Read More
The Fall 2023 semester is complete and the CHAMPS delivered their final assignment—the System Level Design Review. On Tuesday, December 5th the IPPD teams gathered in the Reitz Union to reunite with their sponsors. The day began with refreshments, followed… Read More
As Thanksgiving festivities concluded, the CHAMPS reunited to prepare for a successful System Level Design Review (SLDR). The team finished editing and submitted the SLDR report draft earlier this week and began practicing for the corresponding presentation. On Tuesday, November… Read More
Happy Thanksgiving! The university campus closed on Wednesday, November 22nd for the holidays and the CHAMPS are currently spending some time away with their families. Team members will resume meetings for the upcoming System Level Design Review (SLDR) report during… Read More
Thanksgiving break is rapidly approaching next week and the CHAMPS are eager to complete a few more tasks based on the Prototype Inspection Day (PID) feedback before the holidays. The team delivered an overall successful presentation explaining their progress on… Read More
The CHAMPS Preliminary Design Review (PDR) is officially approved and signed by the Verifone liaisons. This means the team can continue working on training the model while the liaisons await more data to forward. The next major step is Prototype… Read More
As the CHAMPS settled back into their normal school routines after a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentation last week, the necessary project revisions loomed ahead. Week 9 required the team to implement the adjustments into the presentation and report… Read More
Week 8 perpetuated long nights of work on the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentation as the CHAMPS readied for the Verifone site visit. On Thursday morning, the CHAMPS rose around 5 a.m. on a journey to Clearwater, FL. Special thanks… Read More
The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) draft is submitted and the peer review presentation is complete. Week 7 comprised hours of editing, research, and data analysis. On Tuesday, October 17 the team received thousands of financial log entries from Verifone, and… Read More
The IPPD Preliminary Design Review (PDR) draft is imminent, so the CHAMPS team spent Week 6 preparing the preliminary system architecture as well as performing analysis on the Commander data features. However, during the research process, the team identified missing… Read More
This week the CHAMPS team went to Six Sigma training and earned white belts. As a team, we learned about how to organize and design processes. From the beginning of the day to the end, we took an inefficient process,… Read More
Week four featured another exciting meeting for the CHAMPS team and coach with Verifone liaison engineers, Darryl Miller and Brian Russell. The Commander Health Analysis Project progressed to conversations about real data, feature selection, and machine learning models. We reviewed… Read More
We are proud to present the official Team 16 project name: CHAMPS—Commander Health Analysis Model and Predicting System. The final selection employs the preexisting “Commander Health Analysis” name, as specified by our coach, and combines the “Predicting System” utility our… Read More
Welcome to the Team 16 blog! As the second week of this course has come to an end, IPPD put the pedal to the metal to offset the late August weather delays. Our team is excited to have officially connected… Read More