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Fall 2016: This semester, I look forward to exploring new territory within the design lab as I plan to begin writing code for plants with lower and higher flow rates than we have yet to work with. There are many different challenges associated with this task especially with defining the limits of when flow rates warrant the addition of parts to the plant. In these situations, there is research to be done on the set up of the plant and the layouts that the code produces. I took on the task of transitioning our designs from AutoCAD to Autodesk's new program: Fusion 360. This program uses cloud-based services to make designs more interactive and easily accessible from users all over the world. Over the past couple months, I've been looking into the specifics of using Python code to communicate with the application and create designs. Ultimately, the goal is to write new translators that will take MathCAD code and translate it into Python code. The task is quite a large one that will undoubtedly take a few semesters to complete but I welcome the challenge and am very excited for the work ahead and am optimistic that if we can perfect this code, it is possible for AguaClara to further expand the capacity of the plants that we build with our technology. I really believe in this program for many reasons and think it is critical that the team transition our designs into this modern-day program as it will be better to use and communicate our technology as the project expands, especially to other countries.