During January, the team received a majority of the ordered parts. Additionally, the NIH protection of human subject research participants was completed for an IRB. An initial draft to the Institutional Review Board was completed. In late January, the team discussed how the materials should be incorporated into the design and started assembling the device.

During November, the team started with the preliminary design presentation. After presenting, the team began writing a rough draft of the project report. Multiple materials were chosen for the design solutions and budget approximations were created for the two devices. SolidWorks models of the two devices were created. The rough draft of the report and semester presentation was prepared for December. The team supported one of the designs more than the other options. The final presentation and initial report were completed before planning for winter break.

During October, the team had a meeting to better understand the machine shop resource. With possible design solutions already considered, everyone created one or two designs to meet the requirements and solve the given problem statement from September. The team chose the two best options and began creating the initial rough draft of the November presentation. The presentations included the initial problem statement, five requirements, five specifications, justifications, verifications, design solution matrices, and alternative design solutions.

During September, the team decided between two options for the project. The team thought designing a device for TMJD was best, since only three main devices are on the market and none of the options take into consideration the resistive jaw opening exercise accepted by physical therapists. Using this as the basis of the project, the team decided on five initial requirements to present and discuss. The five initial requirements were eventually finalized, along with five specifications. During the third week of the project, with requirements and specifications complete, the team began thinking of possible design solutions to satisfy the given requirements. After considering multiple ideas, realistic constraints were formed. After acknowledging the limitations of the device, standards were introduced.