Gained a greater understanding of vaping devices (and their harmful effects) and vaping detectors
Learned more about conducting/putting together a survey and what are good questions to ask/how to phrase questions
Learned how to send out a survey to a large population
Tools:
STEM-Away Forum
Slack
Soft Skills:
Found how to effectively communicate with team members virtually
Achievement Highlights:
Sent out the survey that was created to get as many responses as possible
Watched the FPGA Training video that I wasn’t able to make in person/ Watched the Intel FPGA lecture
Attended team meeting
List of Meetings/Trainings:
7/20 team meeting, 7/22 office hour, 7/23 FPGA training (watched the recorded video), 7/27 team meeting
Goals for this upcoming week:
Get more survey responses early in the week
Work with team on Week 3 deliverables/presentation
Watch recorded FPGA Training that I cannot attend
Tasks Done:
In the past week,
I watched the Intel lecture on FPGAs. I couldn’t register at first and went to office hours to get help from the leads with this.
I sent out the survey to obtain data/responses. I had to figure out different ways of sending the survey so it could reach the maximum amount of people.
Worked on skills relating to analyzing and graphing data
Learned more about researching a product (& gained more knowledge on current vaping detectors on the market)
Tools:
Trello
Soft Skills:
Continued to effectively communicate with team members virtually
Learned more about the LinkedIn platform
Achievement Highlights:
Got 50+ responses to survey
Met with sub-team to plan our work for the week
Finished Week 3 deliverables & presentation
List of Meetings/Trainings:
7/30 FPGA training #3 (watched the recorded video), 8/1 Vaping Co-team meeting, 8/3 team meeting
Goals for this upcoming week:
Work with team on Week 4 deliverables/presentation
Watch/attend FPGA Training/meetings throughout the week
Tasks Done:
In the past week,
I finished getting 50+ responses to the survey. This was challenging, but I figured out different ways of sending out the survey to reach the required number of responses.
I finished the Week 3 deliverables/presentation with my sub-team
Learned more about researching a product in a more technical way(& gained more knowledge on current vaping detectors on the market)
Got introduced to block diagrams
Soft Skills:
Continued to effectively communicate with team members virtually
Learned about fluency vs flexibility
Worked on critical thinking and drawing conclusions
Achievement Highlights:
Communicated and researched with sub-team
Finished Week 4 deliverables & presentation
Moved from observer to participant
List of Meetings/Trainings:
8/6 FPGA training #4 (watched the recorded video), 8/7 Week 4 Team Presentations (watched the recorded video), 8/8 Vaping Co-team meeting, 8/10 team meeting
Goals for this upcoming week:
Figure out problems with downloading Quartus
Work with sub-team on Week 5 deliverables/presentation
Watch/attend FPGA Training/meetings throughout the week
Tasks Done:
In the past week,
I finished the Week 4 deliverables/presentation with my sub-team.
Had more practice with FPGAs and logic gates (through 10 level challenge and labs)
Worked on creating and researching block diagrams
Tools:
Intel Quartus Prime
Soft Skills:
Continued to effectively communicate with team members virtually
Learned more about resume building
Practiced critical thinking and suggestion
Achievement Highlights:
Met and researched with sub-team
Finished Week 5 deliverables & presentation
Found a solution to problem with Quartus and was able to do 10 level challenge with logic gates and began lab in Quartus
List of Meetings/Trainings:
8/12 Office Hours, 8/13 FPGA training #5 (watched the recorded video), 8/15 Vaping Co-team meeting (watched the recorded video), 8/17 team meeting
Goals for this upcoming week:
Work with team on Week 6 deliverables/presentation (organize and find trends in data)
Watch/attend FPGA Training/meetings throughout the week
Tasks Done:
In the past week,
I finished the Week 5 deliverables/presentation with my sub-team
I went to office hours to try and solve my issues with downloading Quartus. @mandyTT9T helped our team by sharing her screen and opening Quartus in a meeting we scheduled. We were able to do the logic gate challenge and start the lab.
Gained more knowledge on FPGAs, logic gates, verilog, and block diagrams
Learned more about conducting/putting together a survey and distributing said survey
Had practice with thoroughly researching a product/an industry
Worked on skills relating to analyzing and graphing data and finding trends in said data
Tools:
STEM-Away Forum
Slack
Trello
Intel Quartus Prime
Google Sheets/G suite
Soft Skills:
Found how to effectively communicate with team members virtually
Learned more about the LinkedIn platform, fluency vs flexibility, resume building, engaging presentations, and publications
Worked on critical thinking, drawing conclusions, and providing suggestions
Achievement Highlights:
Sent out survey and obtained as many responses as possible (50+ responses)
Completed all deliverables that were assigned; focused on analyzing the survey data towards the end of the internship
Completed assigned FPGA Training labs in Quartus
List of Meetings/Trainings:
7/14 Introduction to FPGAs by Aravind Dasu, 7/16 FPGA Training #1, 7/20 team meeting, 7/22 office hour, 7/23 FPGA training #2 (watched the recorded video), 7/27 team meeting, 7/30 FPGA training #3 (watched the recorded video), 8/1 Vaping Co-team meeting, 8/3 team meeting, 8/6 FPGA training #4 (watched the recorded video), 8/7 Week 4 Team Presentations (watched the recorded video), 8/8 Vaping Co-team meeting, 8/10 team meeting, 8/12 Office Hours, 8/13 FPGA training #5 (watched the recorded video), 8/15 Vaping Co-team meeting (watched the recorded video), 8/17 team meeting, 8/20 FPGA training #6, 8/21 Publications meeting with Mandy (watched the recorded video), 8/24 team meeting, 8/27 team meeting, 8/27 FPGA Training #7 (watched the recorded video), 8/28 Final presentations
Upcoming goals:
Successful continuation of this project
Tasks Done:
In the past weeks,
I finished the Week 3-6 deliverables/presentations with my sub-team and completed the final presentation with my team.
I worked on assigned FPGA Training labs/challenges