In total, I have 19 hours of signed mentor hours. This is just the hours we have spent at Medtronic working testing and adjusting the track models.

The first track we designed, was too difficult to get a stent through. When deploying the guide catheter  that you put through first to guide the stent, it had difficulty getting through. This was the first sign the that the track was the torturous.
 After failing to get the stent through the entire path, we went back onto the 3D printing software and changed the track. We made the narrowness of the back to the original format, but kept the sharper turns. This track, version 2, was too easy to get the stent through. Thus, we went back to the computer. Matt and I decided we would make the track narrower again, but only decrease how narrow it is by half the amount we did the first time.
This track, version 3, is being made and we will test it this Saturday, completing my hours.

While testing and changing designs, Matt has been showing me more of the companies products. He explains why and how each of these medical devices were created. Matt has been going through some of his slide shows about the projects he has worked on. It is interesting listening to his stories because he mentions using the design process, working on/with teams, and all his failures, which are all thing the core teachers have been preaching all year. I get to see what I am learning in school be applied to the real world.