I am in agreeance that for me right now understanding budgeting is the most difficult. I believe that once we are exposed to industry experience we will start to understanding pricing structures for m...

What are some reasons that increase the cost of the project, and how to avoid them? There are plenty of reasons that can increase the cost of a project. The main two that come to my mind are vendor pr...

@qbs2 Deciding priorates is a difficult task that may change job to job. We saw in one of the recent simulations how budget and quality can go head to head. Depending on which route you took, you eit...

Firstly, thank you for making this post, I am really enjoying the responses and learning about personal experiences at companies nearby. I had worked an internship at Weiss-Aug in their surgical produ...

It causes a big ethical dilemma when trying to decide between getting a product out on the market to help patients as soon as possible and delaying the release for extra testing. It is best ethically ...

The researchers and industry need to start their relationships with very clear expectations of what can and cannot be shared with clear terms to their NDAs. Some projects may allow for researchers to ...

I fell that keeping steady contact with the manufacturing team during the design process, especially toward the end of the process is very important. The manufacturing team would have much more in dep...

I would start by reaching out to the vendor and ask them to send replacements as the shipment was not up to their usual standards, hopefully it was just a bad batch, and hopefully it is a quick replac...

The mini-sim was luckily set in a way where civilized conversations solved the problems. We were lucky that the people involved trusted each other's opinions and experience. It is not always like this...

My first ideas is to call a meeting with as many of the project team members as possible, as soon as possible. In this meeting we would brain storm possible theories about what has gone wrong, why it ...

A project manager would ideally have as much flexibility as possible while still being able to keep the project on track. It is important to have some give and be able to take surprises and work with ...

Sometimes it is much better to entrust another company that has the experience, machinery, and manpower for a project component with it. It usually costs less to outsource things like this instead of ...

It never hurts to have a checklist. Especially once a few design meetings have passed and you stat to understand exactly what documentation is required of the meetings and the way that managers like t...

For me, it depends on the project and the rest of the team. Sometimes you need someone very familiar with how a specific process works, then you need the specialized skills. Sometimes you have a team ...

With teams with varying skills, where for example each member may have a different specialty, I believe it is a good idea for those specialists to explain their 'tips and tricks' to the group during t...