People leave work because of "limited recognition and praise" but they stay for "exciting, challenging work." If the work is interesting but there is no recognition, will people leave? If the work is ...

This was a nice and revealing question. I enjoyed reading everyone's posts. I would stay and work for a company if the work interested me. I want a fulfilling career and life, I do not want to be stuc...

I feel as engineers we can take one of two career paths, administrative or research based. If you want to follow an administrative path, partiality is definitely an obstacle that will be faced. Partia...

A collection of some drawbacks experienced by most risk analysis methods: 1. Slight variations between similar projects/medical devices. Difficulty estimating variations and their magnitude and impact...

I am definitely feeling the pressures of scope creep as I near closer to my Master's defense. I made the mistake of waiting until the last month to run my most important and intricate experiment, not ...

Simply, the rate of return is profit, it could be a dollar amount or percentage of how much was invested. It is impossible to know exactly what the rate of return is just as it is impossible to predic...

I don't have any med-tech industry experience but I imagine the design review experience being tense for the product developing team. Passing a design review means completing a major milestone in the ...

A product risk can be a faulty release mechanism on a drug delivering device. Under FMEA this would be a Concept Design / Hardware risk where we could monitor its probability of failure throughout its...

Recalls are a very interesting topic, nice post. Recalls are done, not by the company that designs and develops the product, but by the manufacturer or distributor. When these parties find that the me...

ECOs admit that no design is ever completely perfect, infallible. They are neither a positive or negative event, ECOs are an eventuality. The cause could be: a design error evident only during the tes...

I was lucky enough to choose a Capstone project where we did not have to pay for anything, all of our parts were given to us from previous attempts at the project. However we later found out that the ...

There are many reasons why tracking time is an important practice for any company or organization. Some include: 1) Following the progress of the project, how much time is needed to complete a certain...

A lot has already been said in this post, but teamwork and a PM's handling of team management is a very important prevalent topic. I think the best approach is to set the rules right from the start. E...

I agree here. The suppliers you want to be dealing with are well-established and are known for their high quality materials. In fact build a relationship with these suppliers and do not burden the pla...

Some tools/techniques that can be used to assess quality assurance include: Fishbone Diagram. In this cause-and-effect type diagram factors causing a defect are listed as inputs and their combined ef...