I currently work as a research and development engineer at a medical device company and was introduced to our design controls process just last week. To no surprise, the project leaders mentioned the ...

When I was reading the initial forum post, the first thing that came to my mind was the part of the lectures where D. Simon emphasizes the planning phase because if tests fail during validation then t...

On the contrary of what some of the replies state, I think that regardless of the company size/status and deadlines, all companies have an outlined plan to adhere to the standards mentioned above. Eve...

While its a tough choice to decide one specific part of the design control process, I think that Design Verification would be the most vital part overall. If we think about it, customer inputs and nee...

This is an interesting topic because I have recently started learning about design controls in my industrial role at a medical device company. I learned that there is usually leaders for different pro...

I do believe that over-validation can easily occur if the proper protocols aren't followed during the initial and validation phases of the design control process. If we look at most of the medical dev...

I believe that the entire point of a double blind experiment is to remove any kind of bias or impartiality from the investigators. For example, if the investigators performing the clinical trial are i...

It was interesting to get to know about all the different positions within the clinical research realm. Currently in my role I am a research and development engineer at a medical device company but I ...

This is an interesting discussion topic, while I do believe that more studies on withdrawal and negative side effects should be completed, I don't agree with ag2265 when they state that the first real...

In my current industrial role I work very often with project management of medical devices and I think that based off the descriptions of the other roles that we learned in this week's lecture, projec...

I think that both marketing and sales do have a lot of overlap within their skills and knowledge and how they apply to their responsibilities. However, I think that rather than the overall knowledge o...

I believe that one of the biggest reasons that successful business relationships for sales representatives are important is because of the amount of competition in the medical device industry. Not onl...

This discussion really stood out to me in comparison with the others for this weeks forum. I really enjoyed reading all the posts in this topic because they show that even though engineers (or any pro...

I think the difference between public and private corporations is not as grand from an employee point of view because as mentioned in the lectures, both types of companies can provide employees with p...

This is a great discussion topic! I believe that as an engineer, you do not necessarily need an MBA or an advanced business degree to start up your company, you do need the right knowledge and connect...