In my personal opinion, I believe that I would succeed as an engineer due to the fact that I have always been an hands-on individual.Throughout my high school career, I preferred more hand-on projects...

In society, jobs are a very important factor for survival and also towards the idea of the American Dream. This idea has lead fellow Americans to feel as though they need to put in a lot of hours to h...

In my personal opinion, I believe that the two are related because individuals will go out searching for new challenging opportunities. However, as I analyze the data that was shown in the survey it i...

I have many motivators in my life such as my family, friends and the idea of making a difference in the lives of individuals who actually need it. These will forever motivate me to work especially whe...

A huge part of my life that truly motivates me is that my aunt and younger cousin both have severe neurological diseases/deficits that have impacted their daily lives. Ever since I started to truly un...

Project managers need to have qualities such as communication, organization, interpersonal skills and responsibility to be successful. As a college student, I believe that I have many characteristics ...

@jordankayal I totally agree with the fact that a new person should not be hired. As you stated the hiring process would take way too long. Since the team does know that the person is going on materni...

I think communication is very important when it comes to a project team. I think everyone should be able to communicate but also the project manager should make sure there is effective communication b...

For my capstone project we were asked to create a canine prosthetic adjustable limb. With this being said we needed to use CREO parametric for our entire project. To split the project up we divided up...

Posted by: @hc255 I've experienced several different kinds of changes. One change I've implemented several times was the change of requirements listed in our CAD drawings. I also had to change docume...

Posted by: @devarshi-joshi After learning about Monitoring and Controlling phase we learnt about metrics. My question is how is this metrics important in project? As said in the lectures metrics are...

Posted by: @talha-chaudhry One of the interesting things that Dr. Simon mentioned in this weeks lecture was the concept of team development. When you are a project manager, your project team is not c...

Posted by: @bb254 One issue that all project managers face is being able to keep communication between different departments or people. Information distribution such as sending emails and phone calls...

Design Validation is a very important because it tests that the device meets the requirements. It is done by customers. It is done to make sure the customer needs are met. Each customer need it create...

I believe a Project Manager should also check in with his/her team members especially check in with the timeline. The PM should always go over the timeline and if he believes it might not be possible ...