In my Hum102 class, I read the short story Bartleby: The Scrivener by Herman Melville. In the story, Bartleby was a new scrivener hired by a Manhattan lawyer. Bartleby produced the large volume of high-quality of work compared to the other two scriveners. The lawyer was very impressed by his work because he was a reliable worker. However, one day,…[Read more]

This week lecture on clinical trial protocol, specifically the planning stage, reminds of the experiments I had to conduct for my sociology class. My professor had gotten IRB approval for the entire class to conduct field research. We were told to come up with a sociological question and conducts interviews on campus and record our findings. The…[Read more]

My biggest motivator is competition. I remember in Dr. Mantilla’s engineering physiology lab (BME 363) I got motivated by my colleagues answering Dr. Mantilla’s questions on physiology. Therefore, I would be read up on the physiology chapter every night before his class, just so I would get participation points and keep up with my colleagues.

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Suppose you are a project manager in a medical industry. What are some ways you would motivate the team members you are managing? Does a project manager’s level of motivation affect the team’s productivity and motivation level? Explain.

Suppose you are a project manager in a medical industry. What are some ways you would motivate the team members you are managing? Do you think a project manager’s level of motivation on a specific project plays a role of how much the team is motivated?

For my capstone, we had one main project of developing a mobile application. However, within this one project, we had different mini projects which were put together at the end to become one mobile application. One project was developing the three training games on the user interface side. Another project was establishing a communication between…[Read more]

A while ago we studied about combination device, which may include two or more separate products packaged together or includes products sold separately but intended for use with another type of product.
Find a combination device and explain what it does. Is it class I, II, or III? Why? What steps would it have to take to be approved by the FDA?

On March 31 of this year, the FDA recalled Mylan’s EpiPen and EpiPen Jr Autoinjector products used for emergency treatment of severe allergic reactions. The product is recalled because of a defective part that could result in the device’s failure to activate.
In week 10’s lecture we learned about the closing phase, where the project design contr…[Read more]

In this week’s lecture, we learned about planned value and actual cost. Planned value is the value of the work you are supposed to have on a certain date. While the actual cost is the cost of the project actually winds up being.
For my capstone project, we had to come up with an estimated budget to develop our mobile application and potentially p…[Read more]

According to the lecture for this week, logging work is important because it can be usefully when new employees come to work on the project or when starting a new project, logs can help as a guidance of not making the same mistakes.
I know when I worked in a research lab, I would have to write down what I did on that day, such as the procedure I…[Read more]

What is one challenge project managers face when handling a project? How would the project manager handle those challenge?

We all know missing a milestone in a project is the worst thing that can happen. Not only are we set back our project a couple of weeks, months or maybe years, but the company loses money. Missing a milestone can be seen as a failure by the team not to meet a specific goal. However, is missing a milestone really the bad? Isn’t missing milestones j…[Read more]