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krp76 replied to the topic Advice for Biomedical Engineering Students in the forum Introduction to Medical Device Development 7 years, 6 months ago
Currently I am working at Bristol Myers Squibb on a process characterization team focused on bridging the gap between R&D and manufacturing for commercial medical devices. I also have previous industry experience at Ethicon, where I worked mainly on design controls and verification/validation projects involving legacy products such as surgical suture and mesh. My advice to current Biomedical engineering students would be to familiarize yourselves with regulations on products that you are interested in, specifically FDA regulations and the process flow on designing medical devices. Moreover, as I have learned through other courses Dr. Simon teaches and industry experience, the best tool that you can have, aside from technical knowledge, is that of project management. Getting certification when you start in industry can go along way and a great tool to have in this area would be lean six sigma certification as it can be applied to a broad range of roles within the industry.