During my undergraduate I did an internship over the summer at a medical device company that developed knee and hip replacements. The company's customers were mainly doctors. I remember we use to get ...

In my recent experience I worked for both matrix and functional organization structures. I found that functional organizational structures much more efficient than matrix organization structure. I am ...

I also prefer the functional organization structure. This structure seems like an overall structure of many companies. The employees are managed by a manager with experience in the same specialty who ...

Those are two really big issues you brought up. How safe is the data being transmitted? What happens if the sensor is not capable of working? There are cases where sensors do not transmit correct data...

In my opinion I feel that this is more of a drug then a device. The purpose of this drug used for schizophrenia and act as a sensor second. Patients who are taking the drug are using the sensor to mon...

I completely agree with you. This does have a restriction on engineers, creating new innovative ideas. Medical devices basically have to be pre-existing. This week in the lecture we learned about CDRH...

I consider that a mobile “medical” app as a medical device. If you are using that device to collect clinical data it should be considered a medical device. During my capstone project, we programmed an...

According to the FDA the fitbit is classified as class II. It’s funny, something so small such as a fitbit runs on algorithm has to be regulated and considered to be a class II. During my capstone pro...

Interpersonal skills are crucial when it comes to working in the industry. We all work as teams and sometimes your peers will not agree with on another. That is why interpersonal skill are really impo...

There is a clear difference between a patent and a NDA. First of all a patent is a legal document that gives you or a company a legal binding of ownership that is reinforced by penalties. The NDA is a...

I agree with you, lets say a company is getting sued, no verbal agreement will be taken into account in court. There is no proof that will back your claims. Only written agreements are known to be rei...

Verbal agreement and Written agreement are totally different. One is more important than the other. First of all verbal agreement nothing is guaranteed. Verbal is all talk, and most of the time it is ...

I agree with you, I also prefer the Functional organization if you are starting up a company. Yes matrix organization seems a lot more helpful, let's say some is stuck and needs help there are many pe...

I agree with you that communication is a major key in team work. Communicating as a team makes the work a lot easier and working as a team. If their is no communication this can lead to group conflict...

I believe this can go either way. In a company people build relationships with other people and they work as a team. In my opinion it is better to work with a team of individuals who are more knowledg...