I would personally like to have my end goal to be a manager, but I first would want to get a couple of years working as an engineer to understand how the industry actually works. This semester we lear...

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 hig...

No, I’m not so surprised by these results and kind of expected it. As Confucius put it, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”. For someone to enjoy working for an...

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 c...

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 w...

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 product...

The rate of return is specific to a company and it is related how the company gets its funding for projects [1]. Moreover, it is the rate of return that the investor expects or the cost of borrowing m...

My capstone project AudIQ was about to suffer from a small scope creep, which is when the changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project’s scope. Before the development of the mobile applicat...

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 ap...

My capstone project was one that we were not sure if it would even go through FDA regulation. My capstone project is a mobile application that helps train users to discriminate auditory cue, such as d...

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 produc...

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 ...

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 proj...

I took apart in a mock design review meeting for my senior capstone course. In my class, we were assigned roles of the scribe, moderator, reader, and authors. A couple of weeks before the design revi...

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 ...