And that's the concept portion of my smart chair's product development life cycle! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to prototype the chair this summer, but I learned so much just building it in CAD and going to the lectures to understand what all to add and improve. I'm very thankful to the mechanical engineering alumni who put together HardwareNxt; they were very responsive and made the program such a helpful and thorough experience. I'm currently pursuing an engineering degree, and this program gave me a great introduction to learning and using CAD and applying engineering knowledge to innovate.