*Content warning: My project deals with pediatric sexual assault. Please exercise self-care while reading. When I was younger, I would often take care to only step inside the little boxes whenever I walked on tiled floors or floors with square patterns. This sometimes...
Week 5: On the Home Stretch
*Content warning: My project deals with pediatric sexual abuse. Please exercise self-care while reading. For Team PIPER, week 5 was incredibly exciting time – we found a way to attach the labia and hymen together in a way that stretches them both together...
Week 4: Iterate, Modify, Repeat
*Content warning: My project deals with pediatric sexual abuse. Please exercise self-care while reading. For Team PIPER, this past week was a total immersion into iterative design – filled with tweaks and modifications to different components of our model, over...
Week 3: Stretching Our Imagination (& Silicones)
*Content warning: My project deals with pediatric sexual abuse. Please exercise self-care while reading. When Elise, Shannon, Alex and I demonstrated our low-fidelity “flip”, “twist”, and “swivel” models to our client over Zoom, we...
Week 2: Flip, Twist & Swivel
*Content warning: My project deals with pediatric sexual abuse. Please exercise self-care while reading. Wow – it’s only been two weeks and I’ve already learned about and experienced so many aspects of the engineering design process! It’s...
Week 1: Project Introductions & Understanding Context
*Content warning: My project deals with pediatric sexual abuse. Please exercise self-care while reading. Hello! Over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting updates and reflections about my experiences working in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) on...