One last ‘Pura Vida’

Wow I can’t believe this is the last blog of summer! While I have loved my time here, I am so excited to get home and see my family and friends for a couple days before hopping in the car for a nice 20-hour drive down to Houston. My last days at my internship have...

Flying Through Summer

“The days feel long, but the years go fast.” I feel like that’s how parents describe their kids growing up, but I am going to change ‘years’ to ‘weeks’ and use the phrase to describe my internship. Work days definitely feel long at times, but I can’t believe I only...

FUNctional testing

This week was largely focused on the torque device project. This was partly because two colleagues on the test method development project were in Minnesota testing for the week, and partly because the torque device project is now at a point that requires a lot of...

Testing, Testing

While I learned an incredible amount during my undergraduate years at OSU, there is just so much that school can’t prepare you for. My engineering classes gave me the basics of all the important technical skills and subject matter, and the difficult courses taught me...

Surf’s Up

**How are we halfway through our time in Costa Rica?!** This past week was spent primarily on the test method development project for the modified guidewire design. I am working with 1 engineer from R&D, 2 engineers from Design Assurance, and Sarah (also DA). We...

Fútbol at the Office

In my last blog, I briefly mentioned that I was excited to work in a Costa Rican office during the World Cup. Well, last week, I was finally able to witness just what that means here. On Wednesday, we had a meeting with the entire R&D department, and one of the...