From what I understood, due to the circumstances the vaccine development process was able to be expedited through cooperation between the company and the FDA. The companies most likely prioritized the...

Another issue that can arise if you choose vendors that offer the best price or if you choose vendors without properly researching their product. In both cases, the quality of their product may not me...

Resource management relates to the management of resources such as time and people. For example, how much time should be spend on each tasks and who are the employees that should be assigned to each t...

My capstone project for undergrad required us to validate that our device could properly detect muscle spasms. Since we couldn't validate it by inducing muscle spasms in human subjects, we chose to fe...

I believe that there are two main factors that determine whether the project will be under or over the planned value such as experience in project management and complexity of the project. The level o...

The most common ethical concern in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries is cutting corners in order to rush a product to the market. While many engineers and scientists want to properly co...

The primary source for additional support would most likely be the team manager or the lead. Depending on what resource is required, they can then request for additional funds or for another employee ...

As mentioned by others the most important step would be to hold a meeting with all the team members to determine the reasons that they are falling behind schedule. Should the delays be caused by certa...

I agree that scope would be the hardest to change primarily because all the other aspects tend to decided upon based on what the scope is. For example, if you change the scope to include another compo...

I strongly agree with the second half of your question, that a successful project is not only one that has successfully met all the predetermined criteria for the product. With the healthcare field, h...

As others have previously stated, your question of how to make verification tests so they don't fail is not the correct way to look at the verification process. I believe that whether the product pass...

One of the main purposes of project planning is to detect possible problems and account for them in the schedule. This must also include accounting for issues with suppliers. There can be many differe...

While the amount of work employees have to do depends on their team leader, maintaining a work-life balance is ultimately the responsibility of the employee. Working in person forced a sense of accoun...

For my senior capstone project we primarily communicated through the GroupMe app and Zoom video calls. Due to our team size only being 4 people, we didn't feel that we had the need for a more professi...

The way we systematically organized the tasks for my senior capstone project was by breaking up the overall device into smaller components. For example, we broke our device into the circuitry, vibrati...