In my personal experience, I have found manufacturability and manpower(affecting timelines) to be the main factors I had to take into consideration with contract manufacturers. Make sure you are not m...

I believe that in the initial design requirements meeting, it is important to make a clear scope of who is using the product and how it is being used, This can help lead to understanding clarification...

Once future updates are not projected to make a worthy profit, the company is unlikely to push a new product. For example, if you are creating an additional feature on an already available product, if...

Meeting Minutes are extremely important. They are not common practice in my past experience, but I have found them to be extremely helpful in the past whenever they were available. They give you a his...

I do believe that packaging and labeling should be treated just as importantly as the actual medical device for product safety. Without proper labeling, it is possible that a device would be used inco...

I agree that developers should put a nearly as much importance to usability testing as to mechanical testing. A product is only as good and as valuable as its use. If it is a difficult tool to use, no...

I believe that biomedical engineers are moving more towards the applications and design side of clinical research. They would be focused in design of experiments and modeling end. They can pull data a...

I do not believe that the placebo effect can have a negative effect on a clinical trial, as it is one of the necessary parts and helps to see the actual efficacy of the test drug. If somehow the place...

I believe double blind is better due to its exclusion of bias. Pretend that you are a researcher for a new drug formulation, and you are checking the patients to see if their symptoms have improved. Y...

I have some small experience in branding due to past events I have run and because I am an artsy person at heart. I have done research on cohesive brand image and other considerations that are importa...

I feel like it depends on the type of product. If you are marketing a tool with a new ergonomic grip that helps with hand muscle fatigue, you probably want to reach out to the physicians who would wan...

I do believe that the quality of the product is more important when it comes to medical devices and most products in general. However, bigger companies have a long history of successful products; this...

I feel like it would be beneficial for engineers to take atleast one more buisness related class. Industry is nowhere near what I expected it to be or how I expected it to be run. In college you get a...

I feel like I could argue this point both ways. The first example I can think of is company policies. Say a factor of safety for a company is 2x, but industry standard is 4x, and something breaks, I w...

I feel like in corporate, you are pushed to fit within your job title's restrictions a lot more. Like, if you are in manufacturing, you should not be trying to push ideas for R&D, and vice versa. ...