I believe that the 70:30 ratio is a little lopsided. The ideal ratio of informative to practical courses should be 50% informative and 50% practical. Among the most useful informative course taught ...

My advice to current biomedical engineering students would be to find any form of work in engineering, or any STEM field in general. While the work may not directly use your skill set, getting experi...

The primary difference between academia and industry is the route to success and the degree to which work is structured. When it comes to the route to success, industry typically defines it as bring ...

I personally have zero desire to be a manager. It could be a function of the experiences that I have had with managers that I have worked for currently and in the past. While there is a large salary...

Much of what Chris mentioned in this post is something that resonates with me at my current position. While not always manifested in the form or a promotion, I do see accolades and preferential tre...

I would liken an employee's feeling about a job to the product life cycle. It is phasic, moving from introduction, through growth, maturity, and ultimately decline. In much the same way, there is ex...

I tend to agree with the overall results of the study. The top four reasons for working at a specific company are very much the same reasons I have for working somewhere (not necessarily in that orde...

Many of the things that motivate others are similar to what motivates me. In addition, one of the biggest things that motivates me is the simple acquisition of knowledge. Through school, through wor...

A project manager's motivation level will of course affect the team he/she manages. Lazy project managers beget lazy project teams, aggressive/motivated project managers beget aggressive/motivated pr...

As had been mentioned above, an engineering change order (ECO) will be required since the device design controls portion of the process has already been completed. Since the device now requires a rec...

Another example of a combination product is a drug-eluting stent. This product can fall under CDER or CDRH guidelines. But a request for designation by the FDA would likely place this under CDRH jur...

At the company I work for, we are constantly developing prototypes and special products for customers based on existing devices that we have filed for. In order for us to determine the approval pathw...

Engineering change orders are a critical aspect of design and process improvements. The description of the ECO has been echoed by many of the previous posts. ECOs are often critical controlled docum...

At my current job, logging and lack thereof, has proven to be far more critical than anticipated. As I work primarily in R&D and am responsible for much of the new product development, logging my...

One interesting aspect of a project manager's responsibility is meeting customer expectations. I bring this up because this is something that I see my project manager deal with on a regular basis. C...