Week 8 was another productive week for the team. We had multiple very important meetings this week with various stakeholders in the project and gained valuable perspective on the best direction forward. We submitted a revised version of our Preliminary Design Report (PDR) and updated our presentation slides in accordance to the feedback received from our practice presentation. This included adding more details to some slides, colors to images to make them pop, and slide numbers for easy organization.

Our liaison set up a virtual meeting with a friend who works with IoT devices on construction sites; a very similar field to the product the team is working on. During this meeting, we gave an abridged version of our PDR presentation and got feedback on our scope. We were told the majority of what we were planning on focusing on was in accordance to what the friend had experienced in the industry. The team then asked questions about specifics of his operation, gathering valuable insight into how the product would work from a marketing standpoint.

Every week on Friday, the entire SCI Lab team meets to discuss developments related to the product. Our team was planning on presenting our PDR presentation during this meeting, but due to Friday having classes cancelled this week, we decided to hold a virtual meeting for the presentation. Our liaison was impressed and had very few critiques for us.

In the coming weeks, our team will work to get signed approval from our liaison on our PDR report and begin work on our first prototypes. We look forward to sharing more developments from our journey!