My first week here I feel has set the tone for the next few weeks here at my internship, and I can already tell I am going to love my experience here. Seeing all my colleagues that I will be working along side of for the next few weeks has got me excited to give it my all and develop myself further as an engineer and individual. One of the things I picked up almost immediately is how we aren’t called interns, but colleagues, and I felt like it really just set the tone and made me feel like I was really one of the team, and it was just a really nice feeling and made me feel included.

As far as my project is concerned, I am really excited to work on it some more during the following weeks. From our meeting with Dr. Read, I could already tell that it is going to be a pleasure working with him on our project. The Bag Valve Mask monitor seems like it will be able to help me develop some skills that I don’t have too much experience on, such as coding and electrical work. My team will be working on further developing the BVM monitor by making it robust enough to start doing field test and gathering useful data to help improve the user experience of our device. I look forward to connecting with people and getting their user feedback and really connecting with people as part of the engineering design process as opposed to be stuck in the OEDK trying to get the product to work. Its a nice change of pace to begin with optimization instead of building from the ground up.

My team and I have started further developing our understanding of the process by having our first client meeting with Dr. Read from Public Invention, and we feel like we have a further understanding of what our client is trying to accomplish by the end of this 6 weeks. We have also come up with a few simple topics to research and some people we would like to set up a point of contact with such as REMS and we believe we are ready to move on into the next week, and are excited to see what it holds for the team!