Today was SCOPE Kickoff, when all the teams had meetings with the liaisons from their sponsors! Most of those team meetings were in the afternoon from 4pm to 6pm, but our liaisons couldn't meet then, so we started our day with a two hour meeting. We have a much better idea of what our problem is now, and we get to visit Boston Scientific next week, which should help us define the problem even more.
We also now know which part of our project description can be public. We'll be working on mathematical modeling of gastrointestinal stents. Our sponsor brought us eight or so example stents that we get to keep until the end of the year, and we've already had a lot of fun seeing how they behave. We're jokingly referring to the tests we might end up running on them as the stent Olympics.
Also, remember how our space was weirdly placed in the Robo Lab? Well, a Babson MBA student was added to one of the teams, team A, in the room with four SCOPE spaces. He's not a US citizen or permanent resident, so he can't cross-sign the NDAs for Boeing or Raytheon, who are both in that room. (Sound familiar?) Originally, the plan was to switch team A with a different team, team B, all of whose members are US citizens. However, one person team B has a conflict of interest with one of the teams staying in the big room, so she can't cross-sign that team's NDA. My team, however, is all US citizens, has no conflicts of interest, and isn't dealing with information confidential enough that we need a room to ourselves. Thus, my team got to move again.
We think we're staying put this time.
Also, here's the promised answer to the question "What do the Harley-Davidson and BoSci teams have in common?" We have the same faculty advisor, Brian! We'll also be design review partners so that Brian only has to go to one set of design reviews.
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