Posted by: @hzy2 Has anyone seen the documentary called The Bleeding Edge on Netflix? The documentary talks about a medical device (Essure) that was cleared by FDA and implanted into women for steril...

I haven't been fortunate enough to be a part of a QC team but I would imagine that organizational skills play a tremendously important role in the success of this team. There should be a couple areas ...

Posted by: @tulikadasp In this age, different emerging technologies are beginning to rapidly change the nature of work. Internet of things(IoT), Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine learning are jus...

Posted by: @hm243 In industry, research is done to make discoveries for products that can help people right away, while in academia, research create results for the long run. I feel that both types o...

Posted by: @krp67 If anyone has taken Dr.Simon BME 682 class they know a little bit about Project management and in week 2 he discussed some aspects of PM. Where does PM fit into pre-clinical and/or ...

Posted by: @tulikadasp When it comes to animal research there are various constraints we need to keep in mind. One of them is animal rights. A lot of animal rights group are against this. Recently th...

Posted by: @rv347 Hi -In this week's lecture Dr. Simon mentioned how BME is a diverse degree, in which you learn a little bit of everything. While it can be an advantage to have a variety of skill se...

Posted by: @orleron We are meeting in an interesting time, to say the least. As a disease, covid19 has many elements to its treatment and many of those elements use medical devices. There are venti...

Posted by: @karen-immanuel Hello all, I was just curious as to what level of education is best before getting into industry. My thoughts are that BS is good enough to employ you with basic skills and...

Posted by: @krp67 Communication Management seems like a trivial knowledge area however, its seems as though it needs to be implemented in a PM. This topic of communication is critical. Lack of commun...

Posted by: @smitshah When you have to supplier both having good reputation for the things they manufacture and supply but only thing that can distinguish them is the contract they presented. So which...

Posted by: @nakimw Say that someone on your project team changes positions to a different job so that you no longer have said person to perform a critical task for the project. His or her assigned ta...

Project failure is a preventable in some cases however in some cases it is inevitable. This can occur for many reasons. There could be time restraints, circumstances that push the project behind sched...

Posted by: @asg49njit-edu So after a lot of thought I just realized that there was recently an example of a high risk high reward scenario. Not to long ago there was a group of people on reddit that ...

For any team project or team building exercise communication and responsiveness to what is being communicated are completely crucial for any real progress to be made. Communication involved being able...