After coming back from Dublin we had a lot of work ahead of us. The end of the week was our presentation day at enmodes. This meant that we had to wrap up our SolidWorks drawings, make a slide presentation and practice.
This week went by very slowly because each day was filled with hours of studying and preparing. That Wednesday we also had a 211 exam that nobody was prepared for. This prompted my second and last all-nighter of the semester. I didn’t plan to stay up that late, but I just kept finding more things that I didn’t understand.
As soon as this exam was over we all had to spend the rest of our precious hours preparing for our presentation. Once our slides were complete, we rehearsed our presentation individually in front of Dr. Wasser and Haley. On the last night we stayed at our school building until 10pm to finish practicing.
The next morning we loaded up the bus again, in our business casual attire, nervous and excited for how we would perform. We met the CEO of enmodes at the Hemhotlz Institute in Aachen and he gave us a tour of their bioengineering labs. They've developed lots of devices mainly for the heart and lungs. After the tour came the moment of truth... time to present our device designs that we had been working on the whole semester.
The presentations went well and they liked all of our designs. They said that their final design would probably be a combination of all three, which was to be expected. After our presentation we ate lunch at the university and walked around the city for enough time to get some of the famous Aachener Printen(a type of chocolatey gingerbread) and throw the frisbee around.
This experience felt very rewarding and taught me a lot about the design process. After getting back to Bonn, I’m pretty sure I passed out on my bed until the next morning.
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