This past week has been really great! Closing out the third week, we had the opportunity to undergo a prototype evaluation by Dr. Wettergreen that gave us some constructive insights into our design and testing process moving forward. More specifically, Dr. Wettergreen...
Hello again everyone! This past week has definitely been a week of twists and turns for our team that really showed the value of getting consistent feedback from your clients. Ending out the week, we had determined and defined our design criteria (cost, ease of...
Hello! My name is Kaitlyn Heintzelman, and I am a rising junior at Rice University. I am a Bioengineering and Biochemistry & Cell Biology major on the Premed track, minoring in Global Health Technologies. This past week has been a fantastic start to this...
I can’t believe this is the end of the internship; these past six weeks really flew by. It feels just like yesterday that I was meeting my group for the first time. These past six weeks have been so amazing, and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity...
Wow! These past five weeks have flown by; I can’t believe we only have one week left of this internship. It has been an excellent opportunity to expand my understanding of Global Health and the design process while getting to know some awesome people along the way!...
During this past week, we had the opportunity to speak to stakeholders of a wide variety of backgrounds including businessmen, nurses, non-profit heads, professors, engineers, and even other undergraduate students. Each day we presented our technologies to the various...
Another fantastic week comes to an end! This week of the internship has been beneficial in further broadening my group’s understanding of the problem we are trying to address by introducing us to different assessment strategies. The first tool was introduced to us by...
This week of the internship has extremely helpful in expanding our understanding of the issue we are trying to address. Previously, I, along with many others, had been looking at the prototypes we had been tasked with, the Walk-Through Decontamination Unit and Hand...
This week has been a great start to the internship! I was a little nervous at first, unsure how this previously very in-person interaction internship was going to be online, but the Internship directors have done a great job. The week started off with the assignment...