When I first arrived at Forthright Engineering, I was shown around their workplace and saw that their workshop was actually quite similar to the area of the maker space we have for the robotics team and I learned that, like the robotics team, computer-aided design was an important part of their design process. After I was introduced to the engineers at the firm, they showed me some of the projects that they were working on, including the one that I would be helping with. While I’m not allowed to go into greater detail about the specifics of each of the projects themselves, the range of fields these engineering tasks came from was really fascinating. My task is to research a certain technology that they may need to use, which means finding studies on its efficacy and reviewing relevant patents. Lastly, I was able to sit in a meeting about a project proposal, where they discussed the plans, like costs and timelines, of a new project.