During my studies, I participated in a Micro-Internship to gain valuable experience and insight into a professional setting and their processes and practices. I worked over 50 hours across three weeks at Loughborough, where I gained valuable engineering and scientific knowledge of skin abrasion and skin epidermis scanning techniques, broadening my understanding of biomedical engineering applications.
My contributions to the project mainly surrounded the restructuring of MATLAB code into a more modular architecture. MATLAB is a programming language created by MathWorks and stands for Matrix Laboratory. My work focused on restructuring the existing code into a more usable, modular architecture. My Systems engineering degree really helped with designing the systems architecture, as I was able to use the SysML Modelling language to represent the program diagrammatically.
The SysML Modelling language and MBSE techniques taught in my degree were a critical part of my Micro-Internship, and enabled me to map out and plan my efforts effectively, as well as helped to identify any problems with my design, which allowed me to utilise my short time on the project in the most efficient way possible. My time was not without its hurdles, as the initial investigation work into the MATLAB scripts did take me longer than anticipated. To address this, I had to re-assess the project scope to ensure the remaining tasks were achievable with the time available. This required effective time management, prioritisation, and communication to align expectations and to ensure I delivered a meaningful contribution by the end of the Micro-Internship.