Thursday, September 24, 2015

SCOPE Stories Week 3: Visiting Boston Scientific

Every SCOPE team visits its sponsor at least once and usually multiple times. Our first visit to Boston Scientific was yesterday. 

The visit was focused on getting us all the necessary background knowledge about how stents are designed, made, and tested. We spent a lot of time going from lab to lab talking to different people and learning about different machinery and procedures. My favorite area was definitely the stent-making lab, though the testing is more relevant to our project. We have a much better idea now of what parameters will be important in our model and what kind of testing we should do (or data we should ask for) when we need to verify our model, so it was a successful trip!

Also, our official/public project description is here!

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