The team successfully presented the System Level Design Review (SLDR)! The event included a networking hour for students to meet with other liaisons from different IPPD teams, as well as a keynote activity where students had the opportunity to learn… Read More

The end of the semester is coming up and the team is busy with preparations for the System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentation! SLDR will take place December 3rd and will include a networking hour to allow IPPD students to… Read More

The team’s first Prototype Inspection Day has been completed and the team recieved fantastic reviews! We presented our current prototype to 6 judges, along with our future experiment plans to ensure the final prototype meets expectations. Our prototype has the… Read More

Prototype Inspection Day is next week, and the team has prepared models and demonstrations for the big day! The team was able to model and 3D print a tube design made with 95A TPU to test the material’s flexibility as… Read More

Our first Prototype Inspection Day is coming up quickly and the team is busy preparing the physical models and demonstrations for it! The electrical team was able to develop a Python script that can control the flow rate of water… Read More

The team traveled to Naples last week and met with the Arthrex team! During this visit, the team had the opportunity to present the PDR for the project, observe a cadaver lab using one of Arthrex’s devices, and walk through… Read More

This week, Saline Sync not only had parts arrive to begin prototyping their model, but we are also traveling to Naples, FL to visit the Arthrex site!   The team received the peristaltic pump and tubing required to test ideas for… Read More

The team presented our PDR presentation to our peers for practice and feedback before we presented it to Arthrex in Naples next week! One of the members, Maya, unfortunately caught Covid over the weekend, and had to present with the… Read More

Saline Sync is officially IPPD Lab trained! Due to the hurricane causing school-related events to be rescheduled, the team had to split into 2 groups to find common meeting times to get lab trained. With this lab training, the team… Read More

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… Read More

Last week, we got to meet with our liaison engineers, Troy and Elizabeth! During this meeting, we also got approval for the name and logo for our team (see below)! The name ‘Saline Sync’ represents the goal of our project… Read More

To start off the beginning of the week, we booked one of the IPPD meeting rooms Sunday and got to work figuring out our team’s layout! Though some of us had some trouble with accessing the building at first, we… Read More

On Tuesday, September 3rd, team assignments were announced in class along with the details for our projects. As we introduced ourselves to one another, we learned that we are a group of a wide range of talent and skills that… Read More