The preference between engineer and manager is certainly a personal opinion. The engineering field does often call for the manager to have more technical background. Manager positions are found in pre...

It is absolutely possible for a project to have multiple priorities. Priorities should always be tasks that might affect the timeline of the project. Sometimes multiples things may be affecting the ti...

I think many people choose the medical device industry, as it often entails exciting and challenging work. Being able to work with products that improve people's quality of life is an extremely motiva...

It is important to identify the problems first. There needs to be a clear definition of the problem to determine how it will be dealt with. Is it a design problem, process problem, or resource problem...

The most common method to fill project team spots is to pull from other internal teams within the company. Most companies will have teams dedicated to certain functions. These resources can be pulled ...

I don't believe this week's simulation was an example of un-ethically rushing a product to market. The license agreement was a business agreement between the vendor and the client. The agreement gives...

The scaling of the size of teams is crucial to project performance. In simple terms, you need to have enough people to complete the tasks. As you mentioned, some bigger companies may have dedicated te...

Hi All, Unlike most in this course, I am actually a ME Master's student at NJIT. As part of my curriculum, I am allowed to take 3 courses from any discipline. I chose this course because I work for ...

I would define a successful project as one that has all its tasks completed. In the medical device industry, this can often be releasing a product to market. The project itself is always set up to com...

Gantt charts are fantastic for laying out the project timeline. The best tool I've seen for creating Gantt charts is Microsoft Project. There are also several free versions, but Microsoft's version ha...

You should not set out to design a verification test that cannot fail. The engineer should strive to design a test that can accurately verify that the specifications of the product are met. This heavi...

Working from home definitely has some advantages and some drawbacks. The benefits of this workflow will vary on a case-to-case basis. It obviously depends on what kind of position it is and what indus...

Accounting for the duration of tasks is sometimes more difficult than it sounds. The only real way to know the duration of a task is to just measure it. This can be captured in various types of proces...

Sometimes the success of the new project manager can heavily rely on how diligent the previous project manager was. It will take the new PM some time to learn about the project, and gain an idea of th...

An important factor in the medical device supply chain is quality. Like any other industry, medical device companies want to optimize costs and increase profits. What makes them different is that thei...