One motivation for working on designing a medical device project is to finally get a chance to apply all that you learned in the years of being an undergraduate and going through grad school. It is also known that a good amount of college students today are not capable of pursuing a degree in BME as they may have trouble keeping up with course content or workload. Since there are actually many students who lack interest in pursuing a career path in science, it motivates me, and perhaps others to do what not everyone else is cut out for. Competition also works as a motivator for me, as I have taken Dr. Collin’s Biomaterials course, which some consider to be one of the most difficult courses in the institute. This course was most well known for always having at least one student drop out of the course before the mid-semester mark. Instead, the course motivated me to educate myself with everything presented (which was enforced by the extremely difficult exams), which in turn, improved my study ethic allowing me to succeed in my classes to come.

In terms of an academic setting, are class grades and overall GPA an adequate means of measuring one’s academic motivation? In terms of an industrial setting, an individual’s performance is reviewed annually through both a self-evaluation and a manager’s evaluation that results in the employee being ranked with a numerical value. Can a low review score in this case serve to help or hinder one’s motivation in company performance? Can a high review score take away incentive due to lethargy?