Auxilia is a manual wheelchair attachment designed to alleviate physical strain and allow new wheelchair users to pass through doorways more comfortably. Our product is valuable in allowing new wheelchair users negotiate moving through doors while mitigating the risk of secondary injury. Auxilia will help to foster greater independence in our users’ day-to-day lives.
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Team
I held the role of System Integrator. It was a truly rewarding experience leading a wonderful team of 16 mechanical engineers. I assumed a number of coordination and integration functions during the project, from both a project management and technical design viewpoint. I had management responsibilities that included:
- Coordinating weekly team meetings, agendas, and goals
- Structuring the process to define task forces
- Ensuring that the meeting minutes and team's Slack workspace is properly maintained
- Facilitating communication within and between team task forces
- Forming and maintaining the overall project schedule in consultation with the team lab instructors
- Spearheading the development of the product contract and specifications
- Forming and maintaining a system image of the product as it is designed
- Helping with the physical integration of product subsystems
