This week, I learned most through doing the assignment. Part of the reason being that market and build feasibility are inutuitve concepts. When your building a project, you natural think about the cost of building it and whether people you are targe...More

The lessons of this week came at a time where the substance of the lectures resonated with me. I am currently interning at a start up and I was discussing with a fellow employee about a meeting with a potential customer. He was explaining to me that...More

This week I got to go through the process of designing a pretotype and a process of testing it. I found it very enlightening. Usually when you think about creating a prototype, you try to get the a really good mockup of the product and let people ev...More

This week was super interesting to me. I gained useful insight into how to identify and describe a need. However, coming into the week, I had a notion that I know how to describe a need. I had a belief that all you have to do is just observe and y...More

This week was a reminder to me on far we still have to come in this world.  Seeing the clinic in Sierra Leone was not a surprise to me. I knew that clinics in developing world weren't very technological advanced. However, there was something about s...More

Before this week, I was not very aware of healthcare technologies. Throughout the week, I slowly realized that we are surrounded by health care technologies. Of course, there are numerous devices in hospitals that make sure the patient is stable and...More

This week, the lectures and the homework made me think on what causes the disparities between developed and undeveloped countries. Everyone knows that the United States has a lower malnutrition rates than the impoverished countries in Africa, but fo...More

This week, I learned a lot from the discussion. I had never thought that something like automobile health could be communicable. However, as I thought about it critically and discussed it with my classmates, I learned that most things in a person's...More

A bacteria spewing from one person's cough and landing onto another person's body is a picture that comes to mind when imagining communicable diseases. It is harder to claim non-tangible things, such as a person's accent, are communicable as it is i...More

Hi, my name is Danish Noorani. I was born and raised in Chicago. I am a Junior at UIUC studying Computer Science -- especially intrigued by algorithms and machine learning. In my free time I like trying new dishes, walking around the city, and pract...More