IDPro's interdisciplinary "Bacon Team"

Today, we're in the Hab one building. We share this building with the biological system, the Engineering Department. Food Science and Technology does, and we're in the pilot plant for food science and technology, and we are working with PbSor pressing bacon. Okay. So it's part of the Bacon manufacturing process. This is one component in the whole series chain of events that happen going from the farm to the grocery store. So what we're doing here is we're characterizing the equipment and make sure that it's running an optimal fashion. The name of the course, we shorten it to IDP, which stands for interdisciplinary projects and it's part of the Department of Engineering Education undergraduate curriculum is designed to focus on first years through juniors, students and reach across the campus. I'm a food science and technology major. I'm a junior and food science and technology, anything that has to do with how you get your food, what food you receive, you know, packaging, chemicals, additives. And in this context, we're working with machines that might be in a production facility. I'm an animal and Poultry Science major. I'm a student lead at the meat b, so I do help a lot with the meat science bs. So that's kind of how I got involved with this is understanding what affects pork belly quality as far as the pressing goes, pre post. I am a sophomore in electrical engineer. We're doing the analysis of the machine characteristics. Last semester, they took me up to Chicago to analyze an even bigger machine. Honestly, as a sophomore, I would never thought in 1 million years that I would be doing something this extraordinary.