Monthly Archives: July 2015

Internship take-aways

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This week’s post examines what it was like to be involved at the ASSIST Center for my internship and what I got out of my experience while there.  For starters, my internship wrapped up last Friday, before the second Kenan Professional Advancement Institute.  And, while others are still working at theirs, I am comfortable in the knowledge that the wearable… Read more »

ASSISTing with my Kenan success

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While I fully expected my time at the ASSIST Center as part of my Kenan Fellowship to be challenging, I was not fully ready for what I experienced!  This week’s post will discuss some of the challenges I faced along the way as well as the success I ultimately encountered during my time at North Carolina State University. Perhaps the biggest challenge… Read more »

Assisting the ASSIST Center

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This week’s prompt asks the Kenan Fellows how we see our internship benefiting our mentor’s organization.  And, because I need to do a lot of work on this exact topic prior to next Friday’s poster session, I have to say this week’s post will be considerably shorter than past posts. As a member of Team Nano, I feel it is pretty… Read more »

This week in review – Ideation, Energy Harvesting and Soldering

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After having a great time while attending the Kenan professional advancement workshop at NCCAT last week, I was ready to return to my internship at the ASSIST Center and find out more of what is expected of us as well as learn more about sensor devices.  And, although it was a short week due to the holiday weekend, what a… Read more »

Curriculum goals for my internship as a Kenan Fellow

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I have a number of goals in mind for how I plan to use the knowledge and experience I gain as a Kenan Fellow doing an internship at the NC State ASSIST Center to improve my curriculum.  As I have on the About My Fellowship page, one of my goals relates to learning about the different kinds of visualization techniques that… Read more »