Hi, I’m Mphatso Kalawe a fourth year electrical engineering student and im working on the nurse alert system GUI together with Vincent Nowa . I have to admit that this being my first blog I wasn’t really sure what I’m going to write but I’m really glad to be blogging ( smiley face). This internship has been a life changing to me (so far). During the first week it was more like class room setting we learnt about the engineering design process, Arduino’s, oxygen concentrators and a tone of other things. Opening the oxygen concentrators was my favourite part getting to see all the parts and re-assembling the whole thing. I also learnt how to solder.

The second week was more exciting for me it begun with preparations for the hospital visits to ask questions for the projects we were assigned. My partner and I prepared questions and prototypes to ask and show the nurses and technicians at the hospital. Then we visited Queen Elizabeth central hospital with the whole team. From Tuesday to Thursday we visited hospitals in Zomba, Chiradzulo, Mulanje and Thyolo were we presented our projects to the nurses and we got different feedbacks . the hospital visits were really beneficial because they will help us come up with a better solution and will help us consider other factors we were overlooking in the the first place to make the system effective.

The trips helped us to bond with the interns from rice and we also had a chance to go to Chawe inn in Zomba and Hapuwani in Mulanje. I will keep posted, PEACE!!!