With Hurricane Helene approaching later today, we are uploading this post a little earlier just to make sure we don’t miss out this week! This past week, the team got to split up members into sub-teams to allow members to focus on their own parts of the project related to their specialties and interests. Here are the sub-teams, members, and percentage of time each member will spend in each sub-team, and areas of focus:
Electrical and Software Sub-team
- Heon, 85% – GUI, PCB design, microcontroller, and software concepts
- Yiwei, 85% – Circuitry design, PCB design, Micro-controller programming, GUI
- Frank, 30% – Controls, circuitry
- Daniel, 30% – Anything
- Paul, 20% – Circuit design, some software programing
- Maya, 15% – Assisting in flow rate calculations within the code
- Andriana, 15% – Assisting with any code and circuitry, any PID control
Mechanical Sub-team
- Maya, 85% – fluids, controls, prototyping, CAD/3D printing, and manufacturing if needed
- Andriana, 85% – fluids, controls, prototyping, CAD modeling, 3D printing, etc.
- Paul, 80% – flow rate sensor, CAD, 3D printing
- Daniel, 70% – CAD and prototyping
- Frank, 70% – concepts, controls, and prototyping
- Heon, 15% – Learning CAD and 3D printing
- Yiwei, 15% – Learning CAD and 3D printing
Our sub-teams have decided on weekly times to meet outside of the full team meeting times and plan to start meeting next week to discuss sub-team specific needs and items. During full team meetings, sub-teams will give updates of their progress and indicate areas that require the collaboration of both teams.
With career showcase week this week, the team was able to meet with Elizabeth Wildsmith in-person! The team went to the Arthrex info session together to meet our liaison engineer after getting word that she came to UF. Through the info session, the team got to know more about the background of Arthrex, their products, and their career opportunities.
The team was also able to meet our coach, Dr. Philip Jackson, in-person this week! We were able to have our coach meeting in-person at the IPPD meeting rooms to go over the PDS and PDR progress, design concepts, and go over any questions we had so far in the design process. With Dr. Jackson back on campus, we will continue to have coach meetings in-person.
