• Member of a six person team of Stanford and Norwegian University of Science and Technology students tasked with making an innovative modular product to solve current issues within aquaculture businesses, a highly competitive industry with large academic and corporate presence.
• My roles included project management, user recruitment, creating discussion guides, interviewing, synthesizing research, and presenting research findings.
• Concluded the project with full scale, working prototypes, a presentation to 300+ audience members, and a trade show style booth created to showcase the project.
• Based on prototype testing, we anticipate our solution would lead to a two- thirds reduction in labor hours during the growth of an oyster. For the small to mid-sized farms we worked with, this would lead to a 15% reduction in annual operating costs.
• Yanmar, a large multinational corporation in this space, chose to continue development of our concept after our final presentation.