What an exhausting and fun week it has been! Was really exciting seeing our anteater enrichment device lining up with each step in the ENGI-120 Engineering design process and getting to appreciate how the ENGI-120 Makes the whole design process for solutions much easier!

ANTEATER ENRICHMENT DEVICE

Using the ENGI-120 screening matrices our team managed to down number our brainstormed ideas to a single design solution which was the Tube stuck into Fence which pretty much fulfilled all the design criterion for the project.

 

We finally got to the Engineering design process stage where me and my teammates were really looking forward and excited to work on, which was the prototyping stage for the anteater enrichment device, of cause Jeremy was more excited about it than any of us LOL! . We managed to come up with these three types of prototypes;

Low Fidelity Prototype

Middle Fidelity Prototype

High Fidelity Prototype

It was really amazing and so much fun doing the hands on work with my team members in coming up with these prototypes, and get to use the drummer to file off the sharp edges of the crylic and modifying it. It was quiet challenging in making and assembling the final prototype as were being careful not to put scratches on the device as it required to be as clear as possible for the visitors to be able to see the anteater tongue.

With the rest of the SEED interns we did a power point presentation in the OEDK class room of our projects and it was awesome.

Looking forward to test our final anteater enrichment device at the Houston Zoo during this summer.

CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING MODEL

Am now working with a new team, Mary Mnewa and Karen Vasquez. we will be working on this project for this whole summer. Our client requires our team to design a disk like model that will represent a normal cervix and the cervix in all the difference stages of cervical cancer to used to train nurses and physicians with low medical backgrounds in cervical cancer screening procedure.

Our first task was to do the clarification of the team assignment which is the first step in the Engineering design Process, then we tried to understand the problem.

Then we had to prepare interview questions for the interview we scheduled for Friday 6/17/16 09:00 with Sonia Parra who is working on the cervical cancer screening project.

The interview was really productive, we go so much information  for this project and have a clear picture of what direction to go.

All in all this week has been a blast!!! looking forward to getting this new project done.