This was a heads-down working week for Team FLASH. After presenting our PDR to other IPPD teams and our coach, we spent most of our time working through the feedback. Much of it pushed us toward the same thing, which… Read More

Most of our week went into the Preliminary Design Review. Putting it together meant turning a broad statement of work into goals we can actually measure, which took longer than we expected. Our two main targets are catching and fixing… Read More

Several members of Team FLASH attended a White Belt Quality Workshop hosted by IPPD this week, presented by Florida Power & Light and led by Linda Linnus and Dr. Doreen Ayafor. The workshop introduced Lean Six Sigma concepts including the… Read More

This week our team moved from planning into a hands-on setup. We confirmed access to the Synopsys tool suite on UF’s ECE Linux servers, checked out our first Design Compiler license, and loaded the SAED 32/28nm educational library as a… Read More

This week we met with both our coach, Dr. Rickard Ewetz, and our Lockheed Martin liaison engineer, Andrew Stebbins and GregZ Cieslewski. Dr. Ewetz helped us review expectations and organize how we’re setting up responsibilities and recurring meetings, while our liaison meetings let us iron out… Read More