Hiren Rana

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RE: Engineer vs. Manager

I agree you and say that I would like to work as an engineer for maybe 6-7 years and then move up to a managing role. I have always seen myself as some sort of manager and I think that it would be a g...

In forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial

8 years ago
RE: Why do people leave work?

I think that a lot of people leave work because they are not challenged anymore. I remember talking to someone who was leaving a company and I asked then why they wanted to leave and they told me that...

In forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial

8 years ago
RE: Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate

From interning at Zimmer, I received a Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification. This wasn't through ASQ (American Society for Quality), but it was through the company. So an ASQ certification is the offic...

In forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial

8 years ago
RE: Let's Be Motivated!!!

As mentioned above, a manager's level of motivation plays a huge role in how the team is motivated. If the manager does not show that much interest in the project - the employees will see it as a proj...

In forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial

8 years ago
RE: What’s Your Motivator?

The thing that motivates me the most is knowing that what I help create will one day end up inside someone - making their life better. As a BME, we have an innate feel to improve patient care through ...

In forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial

8 years ago
RE: Why do people work?

I too am not surprised by the results of this study. Everyone that I've encountered in the workforce are genuinely excited to work. In my experience, I have not met a person that is unmotivated or slu...

In forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial

8 years ago
Procurement Management

One of the topics that we learned this week is Procurement Management. What this entails is essentially handling processes that require goods and services from an outside organization via raw material...

In forum Project Management Knowledge Areas

8 years ago
RE: Organizational structure

I did not experience this first hand, but I was part of huge project where the company was shifting from one sterilization method to another. This project involved every single department and it was r...

In forum Project Management Knowledge Areas

8 years ago
RE: Integration PM

During one of my internships, I had one big project that I had to divide up into several smaller parts. Each individual component used a whole different set of tools and doing them all at the same tim...

In forum Project Management Knowledge Areas

8 years ago
RE: Risk Management

One of the projects that I worked on was to look at prints and analyze the prints for any errors or risks. I was given a CAD file of the design and had to run FEA on the design and look at areas of hi...

In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development

8 years ago
RE: Design Review Meeting Culture

I've had the experience to sit in on a design review meeting and what I noticed was the culture was not as strict as I thought. There was a moderator who was basically the person that called the meeti...

In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development

8 years ago
RE: Ideal PM Processes vs. Real life

From what I experienced in the industry, ideally the project should follow Initiating, Planning, Executing, Closing process but as the project continues you'll find yourself still going back and forth...

In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development

8 years ago
RE: Importance of Logging Work

For one of my projects at work I had to figure out a way to sort through a whole bunch of data and easily find something that was needed. Because we use MATLAB in school, I decided to use MATLAB to do...

In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development

8 years ago
RE: Cost Analysis of Project

For my capstone project, we were required to set up a budget and track the changes as we have to purchase material. One of our costliest materials is a resin used to 3D print the material that our fin...

In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development

8 years ago
RE: Design Review Meeting

I had the chance of sitting in on a design review meeting - although I was not an active participant in the review. I thought it was an interesting experience and I learned quite a bit from it. One th...

In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development

8 years ago
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