This week Team Stratagem presented at our Final Design Review, the capstone of the past two semesters. We reviewed our presentation and material last week, and also met on the Sunday and Monday beforehand to rehearse our presentation. At our… Read More
Week 14: Peer Review and Preparing for The End
This week Team Stratagem finished improvements to our application, drafted our written reports, recorded our demonstration video, and presented our presentation for a peer review. On Sunday we recorded our demonstration video to simply explain the problem we were presented… Read More
Week 13: FDR Materials Preparation
Hello everyone, and welcome to week 13! This week, Team Stratagem deployed and demonstrated our live web app to our liaisons, while also preparing our Final Design Review materials. These materials include a video of our product, a report for… Read More
Week 12: Prototype Inspection Day
Welcome to week 12! This week, Team Stratagem presented a successful presentation at Prototype Inspection Day. We received great feedback from over 5 judges, who also had the opportunity to test our product live and in person. To prepare for… Read More
Week 11: Welcome Back and Prototype Preparation
Welcome back everyone! We are over two thirds of the way through the semester and over five sixths of the way through the IPPD program. Last week was our spring break which is why there is no blog post. This… Read More
Week 9: CAE Site Visit and User Testing
This week Team Stratagem visited CAE’s Tampa headquarters to present our current progress and receive feedback on what we should improve or implement. We met with each other several times beforehand to prepare and discuss how we would conduct user… Read More
Week 8: Sponsor Visit Preparation
We are officially over half way through the semester! This week Team Stratagem prepared to present our current application to project managers at CAE next week and began working on our Final Design Review documents. Next week we will travel… Read More
Week 7: Quality Review Board 2
This week Team Stratagem presented to our second Quality Review Board (QRB) and continued finalizing our preliminary finished product and continued preparing for our site visit and user interviews at CAE. Since our first Quality Review Board we have strived… Read More
Week 6: Preparation for Quality Review Board 2
This week Team Stratagem continued finalizing our application, began preparing for the Quality Review Board Presentation next week, and finalized our visit to CAE’s headquarters to present our progress and receive feedback and user testing. A major addition to our… Read More
Week 5: Continuing Improvements and Decisions
We are about a third of the way through the spring semester as of today. This week Team Stratagem continued to improve our application’s user interface and our application’s backend, not directly visible to the user. We are working on… Read More
Week 4: Feedback Implementation
This week Team Stratagem reviewed our Quality Review Board feedback, continued implementing our application, and assigned roles for our Final Design Report’s (FDR) 5 Volumes. After our Quality Review Board 1 presentation we decided to always introduce our sponsor CAE… Read More
Week 3: Quality Review Board (QRB) Presentation
This week Team Stratagem delivered our Quality Review Presentation to a group of 3 judges. We met on Sunday to finalize our slide order and content and met again on Tuesday before our presentation to review and practice. Unfortunately not… Read More
Week 2: UI Updates
Hello everyone! Team Stratagem is coming to you with new edits to our UI. Our team has worked diligently to complete a Time-Only Feasibility Visualization and What-If Scenario Creation UI. Below is a picture of the UI. On the left… Read More
Week 1: Welcome Back!
Welcome to 2026 everyone! This week Team Stratagem identified where we are in the software design process and determined our next steps for this semester. Last semester we worked on interviews, research, and low-fidelity prototyping. This semester we will move… Read More