Wrap up

In wrapping things up, we had our final presentations yesterday on Wednesday and everything went well. We demonstrated how our device will be used and the audience had a chance to ask questions and give feedback on what they thought about the device. Every team did...

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From there now we are here

One of the most annoying things is when you have a ton of work to do and yet you cant do the work because there is a central piece missing. That’s what last week had in store for us. After ordering the materials for building our device, we expected the materials...

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Modelling time

These past few weeks have been for research, idea development, low fidelity prototyping and other things like that. This week was different because this one  has been about the final design. We started this week with a pit stop. This was an evaluation exercise meant...

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let’s present this

Independence Day, Just Awesome! Ok, so this has been an exciting week. It started off with the long independence holiday  from Saturday to  Tuesday. I enjoyed all the activities that happened during the celebrations. I cant describe them because that would take pages...

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Complexities in the design process

Where w left off Before i talk about what this week has been about, it is probably better if i first talk about where we stopped last week Friday. Last week ended with us(team gotta cast them all) talking to our client. The goal was to have a better understanding of...

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Gotta cast them all

Time well spent so it has been two  weeks since i started coming here in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen(OEDK). Here is a  brief recap on what happened the first week, the first activity was boot-camp in which we were taken through a condensed course of the...

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Coming to Houston

Intro So you might be wondering, who is this guy blogging here. Well don’t worry, this is me Blessings Nyoni from Malawi, a fourth year mechanical engineering student at The University of Malawi, The Polytechnic. This has been the long awaited trip of my life since...

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