This course made me think more about how important the interactions between people are to ruining a project. A good PM is important but if you have people in the group that are lagging behind others t...

The two main motivators for me working at a specific company are competitive pay and challenging work. During my undergrad when I was working to pay bills rather than to advance my career I worked at ...

What motivates me the most is doing well. Whether that be for a course or for a job it has been ingrained in me to do a good job. The amount I care about the subject has a little effect on how hard I ...

WBS is important for identifying tasks and showing how they relate to one another and I believe one of the issues can be not getting enough in-depth on the tasks needed for the project. If something t...

E-mails are the most efficient way to communicate with people if the culture of the company makes it so that is the main form of getting into contact with someone. If the person that you are trying to...

Say that someone on your project team changes positions to a different job so that you no longer have said person to perform a critical task for the project. His or her assigned task not being done ca...

Time is an important factor in any project because extending a project not only makes it more expensive but could also lead to a competitor putting out a similar product before you could. To shorten i...

One thing that needs to be considered by the engineer more often then I realized is the cost of the product. You could have an amazing idea for a device that the user will love and but if it is fiscal...

For the company that I work for they implement new devices in order to make the work of technicians easier and ensure quality. One such device is one meant to cut tissue into predetermined shapes with...

I currently work as a technician at a tissue bank where I process the tissue and prepare it to go out to the doctor. Our organization as a whole is one of the bigger tissue banks and the department I ...

As an undergrad, a group of my classmates and I had to come up a phantom for micro-CT scanning. Our client for the project wanted channels a micron small and in order to do that there would require a ...

I would say that Goleman’s perspective is not too far off. Because the type of work required by biomedical engineers is a collaborative effort you need a certain level of interpersonal skills in order...