This blog is the last blog I’ll ever write for SEED 2018. It has been an incredible summer and I feel like I’ve learned a lot about how to work on a team and efficiently complete an engineering design project. This week was all about lasts. But it was also about new beginnings. My team and I have been discussing our plans for the future (not just in the context of our design solution) and I can tell that this summer internship has benefitted all of us in countless ways. Ok that’s enough of the nostalgia. Lets get to the actual solution… Lines and a sensor: the combination of two inexact measurements.

Below you’ll find the most complicated flowchart I’ve ever worked on. Don’t try to read it unless you reallllyyyy want to because its quite complicated. Nevertheless, it shows our solution from beginning to end.

So this week, we worked on the check system and weighted average optimization as well as an insane amount of documentation and flowcharting. I wrote the RGB and hex codes for the colors on the flowcharts so much that I’m pretty sure you could tell me a color and I could tell you the code. The check system and weighted average are important because they make sure that the nurse inputting values into the Kasupe doesn’t make an error and that the syringe doesn’t fall so far outside of our collected data that it is unsafe to use with a patient.

My team also had our final presentation! It was definitely an improvement from last time when someone almost passed out and when explanations were a little rough (seas). No one even felt the urge to pass out. This is probably because we felt much better about our solution and the work that we put into the presentation this time. Good work team! We went from rough seas to smooth seas…. And why is that, you might ask? Well, because we are now SKILLED SAILORS. Our client Chloe was even there to watch us present and talked to us afterward about how she hopes they can implement our solution into their syringe pump! It was a good day!

The other exciting thing that happened this week was the dinner at Dr. Wettergreen’s In-Laws’ house. We made fresh pasta from scratch and a delicious salad. It was a great event to close out SEED for the summer.

I am so glad I was a part of SEED this summer and had the opportunity to meet students from Brazil as well as all around Rice. Even through the jokes of my blog, I hope you can tell that I learned a lot and enjoyed my time at the OEDK. To close this blog out, I’d like to go back to a saying my team started using on the birthday of S-Caliber. Nothing is set in stone… except maybe the syringe in stone that we will be 3D printing at some point in the future.

Goodbye SEED!