Like most of the responses above, I also think that when a validation or verification test fails, an engineer must first record the failure in the documentation available to all team members. Followin...

Some factors that play a role in deciding how to interpret standard guidelines are the novelty of the device, the risk the device poses, or the complexity of the device. When designing a new, complex,...

The nine components of the design control process are extremely important to ensure that the final version of a product addresses all requirements and customer needs. Of all nine components, the three...

Design review meetings occur at the end of every stage during product development and are important to ensure that all members of the project agree with the required documentation and procedures assoc...

For my senior year capstone project, my group and I created a design specification document for our pediatric exoskeleton. We are definitely not professionals in the development of these documents, bu...

Design verification and design validation are two distinct design controls. Both verification and validation requires a series of tests on a device to check against a certain set of inputs. However, t...

In a double-blind experiment, bias is substantially reduced because not only are patients unaware of the treatment they are receiving, but doctors/researchers are unaware of the treatment they are adm...

As previously discussed, multicenter research trials have their pros and cons. A few of their advantages are the quicker recruitment of participants and a divided workload, which results in clearer an...

One of the roles that came up when I searched for “Good Clinical Practices” on a job search engine was Clinical Research Coordinator. I thought this role would be interesting to discuss because I used...

Hi! From the different facets of marketing listed, I’d also prefer to work in product management. We learned that in product management, managers control and work with the entire product life cycle. T...

I think all of the four P’s of marketing are essential to ensure a successful marketing strategy. However, without marketing the first P (product), the other P’s (price, promotion, and placement) woul...

A good marketing strategy consists of successfully forecasting future trends related to the sales of a product through what is known as the market forecast. Typical questions asked when conducting a m...

We learned in these week’s lectures that the motivation of both private and public companies is to please their shareholders. However, private companies may have fewer shareholders and are not require...

This is a really interesting discussion topic because some believe that only people with an MBA are qualified to start their own businesses, and I can understand why. As a student in engineering, othe...

Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are useful when the work being conducted is risky, and thus, dividing liability between partners is needed to ensure that the risk posed to each partner is limite...