I believe that they are disconnected because its teamwork vs. individual but I believe they are connected in a strange way.‘individual effort’, ‘making the numbers’, and ‘agreeing with the boss leads to ‘teamwork’, ‘achieving challenging stretch goals’, and overall ‘candor’. When the company or teamwork wins, the individual wins. When the compan…[Read more]

I would choose a manager role. There were several engineers at my company who would never want to be in management and prefer moving up the ladder as a more senior engineer. This was due to that fact that managers needed to stay longer each day and do more paperwork. I would actually prefer to just stay longer each day and do the paperwork because…[Read more]

I would choose a manager role. There were several engineers at my company who would never want to be in management and prefer moving up the ladder as a more senior engineer. This was due to that fact that managers needed to stay longer each day and do more paperwork. I would actually prefer to just stay longer longer and do the paperwork because I…[Read more]

I believe that to determine if you should outsource a clinical trial or not, you should first develop a scope, WBS, Gantt chart, and budget for these tasks. This will give you an idea of how you would run the trial. Then contact a CRO and get a quote and outline of what they feel they can do. If they seem to have a better handle on the situation…[Read more]

I believe that to determine if you should outsource a clinical trial or not, you should first develop a scope, WBS, Gantt Chart, and budget for these tasks. This will give you an idea of how you would run the trial. Then contact a CRO and get a quote and outline of what they feel they can do. If they seem to have a better handle on the situation…[Read more]

Visualizing the end product motivates me. While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I helped design new components for the submarine. Sometimes, while working on a document or setting up a meeting between all the stakeholders, you wonder why are you doing it? This is when I visualize the completed product and just the smallest details bring…[Read more]

I expected “fair pay” and “benefits” to be higher. I thought the main reason why most people worked was to get paid and have benefits to survive. I actually thought that was the main reason for “work” itself. For me “meaningful work/making a difference” would be the first thing on the list followed by “fair pay” and “benefits”. While working for a…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat in the electrical engineering dept, there was a shortage of software engineers. Whenever someone finds out that there was a software engineer with any kind of experience in electrical engineering, they usually were courted and eventually, they go to another department. While a director of a another…[Read more]

As a nuclear engineer, I have experience working at nuclear plants in probabilistic risk assessment. At one particular nuclear plant, they use bayesian updating to calculate the risk of a component failing in the nuclear plant. They basically collect data by starting the component up and every time the component starts up initially, that’s a pass…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I was tasked with just replacing a component on a system on the submarine. It was just a simple change out of a component that they said was an old, deteriorated component that was clogging the system. I wrote the procedure and charged the “account” that it was under to get the job done (we call…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I was tasked with just replacing a component on a system on the submarine. It was just a simple change out of a component that they said was an old, deteriorated component that was clogging the system. I wrote the procedure and charged the “account” that it was under to get the job done (we call…[Read more]

As a nuclear engineer who worked on submarines, a part of the job is lowering radiation exposure or risk for the navy (the customer who works on the product). This means understanding the nature of the problem or radiation. You can mitigate the risk of exposure with time, distance and shielding. This means helping the navy develop a plan to do…[Read more]

In my experience, one generally starts following the process ideally: Initiating Processes, Planning Processes, Executing Processes, Closing Processing. While trying to follow the process, problems usually occur that may require you to revisit a previous step. For example, during the executing process you might run into problems that require you…[Read more]

In my experience, one generally starts following the process ideally: Initiating Processes, Planning Processes, Executing Processes, Closing Processing. While trying to follow the process, problems usually occur that may require you to revisit a previous step. For example, during the executing process you might run into problems that require you…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, the culture for the design review meeting was rather relaxed. The design review meeting is schedule at least 4 weeks in advanced so there is ample time to review the documents and discuss changes before the actual meeting. The general attitude is that it was a formality where everyone gets in one…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, the culture for the design review meeting was rather relaxed. The design review meeting is schedule at least 4 weeks in advanced so there is ample time to review the documents and discuss changes before the actual meeting. The general attitude is that it was a formality where everyone gets in one…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I held several design review meetings and they were usually fairly quick. This was due to the fact that weeks before the design review meeting, I would sent out the materials and ask for comments back a week before the meeting. That week before the meeting, I would resolve all those comments.…[Read more]

ECO gives the chance for a team to admit a mistake was made or a design can be approved and effectively, document and execute that change. The process is first identifying the mistake or improvement and then documenting it properly on a diagram or official drawing as well as updating a procedure to include the change. Then the change is sent out…[Read more]

ECO gives the chance for a team to admit a mistake was made or a design can be approved and effectively, document and execute that change. The process is first identifying the mistake or improvement and then documenting it properly on a diagram or official drawing as well as updating a procedure to include the change. Then the change is sent out…[Read more]

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I would hold bi-weekly teleconferences with all parties involved in the project. This included people at the Naval Research Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, other vendors, and gov officials. During this meeting, I would take meeting minutes and at the end of each meeting email them out along with a list…[Read more]