We had our final presentations on Wednesday afternoon, marking the end of project prototyping this summer. It was an awesome experience. All teams were well set and ready for the presentations. Final devices were brought along for show to the audience....
From last week, this has been a busy week. We completed our Rev 2 prototype, this prototype was tested under different temperature conditions, the results so far obtained were consistent and convincing. Testing OxyCal against the standard, hand+, proved that OxyCal...
A week of mixed reactions! Many achievements have been made in the week. Learnt 20 ways not to cut stencil Discovered 4 materials for making stencil (Kapton tap, wood, acrylic and laminated pages) Learnt 5 ways not to handle stencil Discovered the greatest secrete...
At the middle of summer………… Only three days of work we had!!!!! My home country’s independence day was celebrated!!!! Malawi woyee!!! Independence woyeee!!! Houston Woyee!!!!!!! Woyee, Woyee, Woyee!!!!! (Malawi’s slogan) I have for...
Continuing from last week, i began the week with so much excitement and hope for more knowledge acquisition. Indeed, each day is a graduation day of one level of knowledge to another. Team OxyCal, researched more on the device. There was nothing more fulfilling than...
Work continued from last week, boot camp got intense, Team Hippo (Christina, Manuel, Bruno and I) worked tirelessly and on schedule. Boot camp project completed! An interesting week it was.! Many thanks to Dr. Wettergreen, Dr. Hunter and Jeremy for the mentor-ship,...
I am Tiwonge Yebo Nyirenda, a fourth year student at the Malawi Polytechnic majoring Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I arrived in Houston on June 11 for a six weeks SEED internship. It feels great to be at Rice – Houston. The people are super good (both...