ReferMe (2015/16)

ReferMe was a final capstone interdisciplinary project with three engineers and three business students working together to develop a product or service for the market. We flew to Dalhousie (expenses paid) and pitched for the Canadian Business Model Competition. See Competition Slide Deck. By the end of the two semesters, we had interviewed over 100 customers in one-on-one, one hour interviews determining their needs and how we could develop a product to match that.

This project was one of the hardest I have ever done, and developed my interpersonal and management skills. Two of our teammates were not able to cope with the different learning and working styles of the other disciplines and the different time schedules made it extremely difficult to push the venture forward. The open-ended, proactive style did not suit some of our teammates. The engineers had difficulty with customer outreach, which was the first half of our term. Various interpersonal and project related problems cropped up. This was the closest to real life work problems I had ever experience and I learnt a lot from it.

Trailrider (2014/15)

Redesign of an off-road wheelchair based on feedback from users. Final Presentation (Powerpoint)

Hovercraft (2014 – 3rd Place Overall)

Competition of second year engineering to design a hovercraft that could pass speed, weight carrying and maneuverability requirements set by the class. Prediction using Matlab to estimate the timing of the hovercraft was also required. 20 Teams of 5 worked for a month to prepare for the competition.