Testing, Testing, and More Testing!

After finalizing our assembly for this batch of Pumani units, I have been in charge of testing the pressure and oxygen qualifications for the units 3SD has on hand. The initial pressure qualifications are run through a Labview test fixture created by 3SD. Thus far, my...

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Taking Up Responsibilities

The primary engineer at 3rd Stone, Krister, recently left for Alaska last Thursday. Since then, many of the tasks that he had previous been responsible for completing have been passed onto me. In some ways, much of my learning has been a bit of trial by fire....

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Week 2 Update

So much has happened in the past couple weeks, but I never got around to blogging about it since both work and living transitions have kept me busy. I’ve officially moved into my housing at Dominican University, which is about 3 miles or so from the office. The...

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Days One and Two

I arrived in San Rafael, California on Sunday. I know everyone says this when they come to California, but it’s unavoidable: the weather is beautiful. I’m staying the first week at a nearby hotel since the housing at Dominican College doesn’t open...

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One week before departure!

It’s officially one week before I leave for San Rafael, California to work with 3rd Stone Design (3SD) in manufacturing and developing the technologies from Rice 360. I know that 3SD has already worked with Rice in scaling up the production for the immensely...

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