I am conflicted between the two most important design controls of customer input/ verification and validation. This is because if the product being made has no customer input and will not be successfu...

If I was part of a clinical trial, I would want to the investigator. I would want to do this because I want to work with the participants themselves and hopefully see a new drug or device change peopl...

I agree with many of the above posts, that placebo clinical trials are both ethical and necessary. The placebo effect as said in the lecture this week can reduce pain by at up to 20% because of how mu...

In my experience of going to school for biomedical engineering, there were no courses to teach on about the clinical side of research and clinical trials. The only engineers I knew of in school with c...

Dr. Simon explained the different types of marketing jobs that you could do depending on your skillset/ interests this week. He explained the main different types of subsets—Product management, brandi...

I agree with many of these posts that the most common way that companies advertise is through social media sponsoring different professional athletes or famous people. I know that I personally have an...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is your ability to understand and use your emotions positively, for example, to communicate, show empathy, or solve problems with others[1]. This represents your ability to...

I do not think I would ever enter a partnership with anyone. If I was going to, it could not be a close friend, as sometimes even if your ideologies are very similar a time will come when you disagree...

As some of these posts have mentioned, if I was searching for a job and doing research on the company before I interviewed/applied, I would check the company's reputation and profit history. I would p...

This week's videos were about different types of businesses and corporations you can work for or begin as an entrepreneur. For many engineers and scientists (myself included) I have never explicitly l...

I personally have not worked in the field in the industry to see any problems, however, in the news there are many stories of companies not disclosing the risks of their products, failing to report ma...

I agree that the quality assurance role seems to be more about the research on the devices and how they should be properly made/checked focusing more on the paperwork side, and quality control would h...

Upon graduation, I will become a quality assurance engineer for the government, and this summer I completed my first internship there. One of the selling points of the group I work for is the ability ...

I do not have any experience in how this would relate to a medical device field, but in terms of proposing new ideas, I have some experience as I have just finished an internship within the government...

From the lectures this week, we learned how many of the documents put forward by medical device companies to the FDA are propriety information and although the synopses can be found, the full document...