This class has helped me realize that my initial desire to work in RD is still what I want to do with my career. This course does not go into any actual research of new devices, and why would it. That's just a design course. In many of my other classes, I get the freedom to create new designs. I really enjoy working on those and wish I had more time to dedicate to it. Unfortunately, the material covered in this class is a lot of what I do not want to participate in the medical device development. Most of the procedures that we went over actually really bore me and just seem like typical corporate material.

As an undergraduate student who is graduating next semester, I found this score extremely useful. This class was my first exposure to the field of industry. No other class has covered the different departments available within industry. At first glance I assumed the class medical device development was going to be more about specific devices and their pathway in becoming commercially sold. Although this class did cover how devices become approved and distributed, I found the most value in learning what specific job each department yields. Now when applying to jobs I understand what is going to be expected of me depending on the department they hiring for. I am going to strongly recommend my peers to take this course before they graduating so they have a basic understanding of industry before going into the field.

Undoubtedly, this course was incredibly beneficial and a great learning experience. Before enrolling in this course, I did not hear much about the material, and initially expected to learn about the theory behind developing a medical device. Frankly, I was more satisfied and impressed when I realized that it was more about how the medical device industry works. I thoroughly enjoyed every lecture because I currently work in a medical device company, and since I am fairly new to the industry, it taught me an immense amount about my current career and my hopeful future. My knowledge about the field has expanded and my eyes have opened---and I would like to thank you, Dr. Simon, and my fellow students, for allowing me to benefit greatly! Other students and myself now understand what it is really like to be in the real world as Biomedical Engineers and what is expected out of us every step of the way. Thank you again, for your wonderful and much needed guidance! It was a pleasure.

It's not so easy to come up with a name due what the class covers. With that said, I would say something along the lines of "Medical device development process" or "Product development for medical devices", would provide a little more clarity.
As for the Verbiage, something like, "Medical device development cycle follows a well-established path, with many of these steps overlapping with each other. This project based course will provide real world insight of how medical devices are developed from Pre-clinical to Quality, while looking at the overall development process.

As someone who works in the medical device industry, I can say that this course did a great job of covering most of the different aspects of the field. We learned a wide range of topics which give an excellent background on how these large medical device companies work. In addition, this project is giving us real world experience on developing a device. Just like in real life- we have to work with cross-departmental teams to achieve our goals, which is a great ending project for the class.

When I enrolled as this class (which I did as an elective course), I was expecting to learn more about the technical details of the development of different types of devices themselves. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this course was a more "big picture" lesson in what types of professions are necessary to produce a device. While I personally already work in industry (and I have had previous experiences, mainly internships, where I've been lucky enough to discover what I really enjoy doing), I think that getting the overview of all of the critical pieces is very helpful for someone who has never experienced an industry setting.

I particularly appreciate the amount of "realness" present in this course. For example, I remember being a little shocked at my first internship when I noticed that an employee was copying & pasting sections of one report into his own. In school, you're taught that that's plagiarism, but as Dr. Simon mentioned multiple times.. its not cheating, its the more time efficient way to do things. Also I've noticed firsthand in my job that the people that can work well with other people get farther than the "difficult" people, which I think Dr. Simon did a great job of enforcing with the assignment of the group project. Overall, Dr. Simon teaches things that took me a little bit to learn when I joined industry, so I think that anyone looking to find a job in the industry will be well prepared after taking this class.

I would like to suggest "Medical Device Industry Preparedness" or something similar in terms of preparation for work across a variety of disciplines in the Medical Device or even a more broad Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry. I believe that this class has definitely delivered a much deeper look into the responsibilities of different departments in the industry and allowed for the chance to get involved in preparing the documentation of one of the roles.

Thanks,
Romany

I signed up for this course knowing that I will learn about the practical and industrial aspect of Biomedical engineering. I want to work in industry after I graduate, so this class helped me gain more knowledge about the departments and overall development processes. Dr. Simon provided guidelines and ideas about different opportunities which will be beneficial while applying for jobs. I recommend this class to all the BME students who want to work in medical industry.

I would like to thank everyone for the great feedback. It confirms for me that the reason why I made this course and the way in which I designed it are benefiting people. You were a good group.

One point I do want to make is that this course is definitely medical device based. Whatever useful information you may find here about the pharmaceutical world is incidental, because that is not where my expertise lies. Pharma is a very different world. It would not make a lot of sense for me to try to incorporate any of that here.

The terms "medical device development" or "product development" in industry definitely point to the process of device development itself, but I agree that the context which the university may show you might lead you to have other impressions. That is something that I work to reveal, as you can see.

For those of you coming back next semester, have a great break. For those not returning, I wish you the best and do not forget you can come back here and take my other medical device courses if you missed any while you were at university. Keep in touch.

This course has been a great one, that taught me the ins and outs of the medical devices and the logistics behind it. i enjoyed the course a lot and learned so much. This gave me an idea as to the practical industrial aspect of biomedical engineering which is not tradationally taught in other classes, which makes this one invaluable and definetly very intresting as well. I througlouly liked this class and this gave me some great industry experience everything I expected. thanks

Even though, I don't really have any experience with a big medical device companies I think I can say that I know much about medical device world now then I knew before. I learned a lot from this class, starting from how the company starts making product to the end on how the product is released and all the things in between. After taking this class, I have realized that there are some fields that I definitely don't want to go in because they absolutely don't interest me such as pre-clinical and clinical and there are some fields that I might love to be part of.

Dr. Simon,
Thank you for such an amazing course. I've learned a lot from this course, especially because I'm majoring in Mechanical Engineering not Biomedical Engineering. The overall quality of this course is awesome, I got to know all the steps that we go through before releasing a medical device. Before this course, I did not even know what is the FDA for example. This course made me go deep into research and discover more information in the field and I learned it is not that easy to develop a medical device. It was very helpful to get a taste of what Biomedical Engineer might do, since I don't have any experience in the field. I would definitely go ahead and learn more about the medical devices on my own, and seek a position in the field. Thank you again professor.

Overall the course was very informative and provided insight on the jobs available in the medical device industry. My current interest is to work in R&D, learning about the regulatory and quality sections of the medical device development process was informative. I will be applying my newly acquired knowledge in my job and grow more as an engineer. As mentioned prior, the purpose of the course is to provide students a taste of each role to help students discover what they are interested in, this is key when making a career decision. Linking theoretical material to actual industry related events and situations is valuable, I believe there needs to be more courses like this. Thank you once again Dr. Simon for a informative semester.

I really enjoyed this course, and I think the best part of this course is that it really gives students a very good idea about what the real world is like working in the medical device industry. Since I already have a job in the medical industry, it was interesting to compare how my company's strategy and procedures for medical device development compare to the topics discussed in class. Your lectures were very informative, and I really liked how you covered so many different topics, different types of companies, different careers within medical devices, etc. I really think NJIT should offer more classes like this to undergraduate students so they can see what types of jobs are out there and what type of job they may be interested in. I am planning on taking the Advanced Medical Device Development class next semester, so I will see you then.

Dr. Simon, I learned a lot from this course, and I think I have a better outlook on what to expect in terms of going into the industry. I haven't had any experience in the industry yet, and before taking this course, I didn't know what to expect. However, now I don't feel like I would be entering the industry with a blind eye. This course definitely helped me figure out what route I'm more interested in, as well as what route I don't want to take. I am very eager to practice what I've learned, and definitely feel more confident about entering the industry than I did before. Thank you very much for your time Dr. Simon.