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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic "Risk management methods" – 5 years, 11 months ago
Another good technique that is used in the Industry is: Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) This technique analyses the outcomes of a failing project. First you establish the failure modes, then risk reduction is used in order to increase the… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic "Risk Identification" – 5 years, 11 months ago
In personal experience, the design matrix is the most important part of the risk management analysis. The way it was done in a job I had, was by how much money the owner of the company was going to make…. Read more»
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic "Design Transfer and Challenges" – 5 years, 11 months ago
I agree with most of the challenges mentioned above by my classmates. However I have to point out that the main two challenges(In my opinion) should be safety issues and communication problems between all the departments working on the device…. Read more»
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic "Design input sources" – 5 years, 11 months ago
The whole team is in charge of launching a product to a target customer. You gotta to have certain a target customer, people who are willing to use the product. The project manager would then put together all the documents… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic "Consequences Of Insufficient Design Controls" – 5 years, 11 months ago
The timeline done by the project management would be significantly changed. A poor product would bring down the credibility of the company and it would put in risk the safety of the patients (Additionally, if the project affects the person,… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic "What are Design Controls?" – 5 years, 11 months ago
The main reason why Design controls are useful is because they test the quality, liability of the product. This would make sure that the clients do no get affected in a bad way by it. On the same way, it… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Source Selection in Executing Process" – 5 years, 11 months ago
In this week’s lecture Dr. Simon mentioned that during the executing process of a project, the project manager (PM) is in charge of the source selection. This means the PM must decide on who are the appropriate suppliers for the… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Ideal project team" – 5 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone. Project managers need to be effective in a lot of ways. For example, you need to finish the project on time and the quality of the product need to be outstanding. However, they don’t do it alone. They… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Tests for validation and verification phase" – 5 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone, I hope everything is going well. Dr. Simon mentioned in the lecture that you during the design verification and validation phase, the engineer is supposed to kind of “make up a test.” I am completely sure that all… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Significant or non-significant risk" – 5 years, 11 months ago
In the lecture Dr. Simon mentioned that if your device posses a significant risk the FDA might require clinical trials. I know there are other reasons for why a product might require clinical trials but what is meant by “significant… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Restrictions for physician's gifts" – 5 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone, As I was listening to this week’s lecture, it called my attention the fact that companies can only give gifts of 100$ to the physicians and those gifts have to be related to health. Additionally, Dr. Simon mentioned… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Minutes for meetings" – 5 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone, I have noticed how Dr. Simon keeps pointing out to importance of taking minutes in all the meeting of the team. I never really thought of how important they are. Before this, when I was in meetings and… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda posted a new topic "Making up tests for design verification and validation" – 5 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone, I hope everything is going well. Dr. Simon mentioned in the lecture that you during the deign verification and validation phase, the engineer is supposed to kind of “make up a test.” I am completely sure that all… Read more»
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Why do people leave work? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 7 years, 11 months ago
As some of the posts above mention, a lot of people leave their jobs because they simply don’t like to get used to a routine. Instead (especially in engineering fields) workers prefer to get challenged by the daily work. I can understand that because all of us get challenged from day one at school until the day we graduate from it. For a person w…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Engineer vs. Manager in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 7 years, 11 months ago
I agree with most of the posts above, in the point that you have to start in the bottom and then rise up. It is key to start as an Engineer because you will be dealing with a lot problems and you will get a real sense of what that job is. Eventually if a manager position is reached then the person will have higher chances of becoming an effective…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Disconnect in rewarding motivation in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 7 years, 11 months ago
You have raise a good point but I am not surprised by it. Although we are taught at school that the best workers should get the promotions, I personally even took an Engineering Ethics class on how most of these things should be dealt with. However, the teachings at school are very far from what actually happens. I personally have never seen…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Let's Be Motivated!!! in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 7 years, 12 months ago
As explained above, the project manager is the main factor on how the motivation of the team varies as the project gets done. For example: there was this time that our team was trying to get done a very hard step in order to complete the job. I remember we stayed late throughout the whole week and then we even worked in the weekend. When it was…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Why do people work? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 7 years, 12 months ago
I believe that there are a lot of things that motivate a coworker to give a good performance at work. I am surprised though that only 32% people, mentioned that they were motivated by the fair pay. I think this does not reflect the reality of how things happen. Everyone would get motivated by fair pay and other factors since we need certain…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic What’s Your Motivator? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 7 years, 12 months ago
What motivates me more when completing my work is the impact that I am causing in society when doing my job. Our community has to continue improving in every aspect of life so I just think of how my project specifically will affect the people who surround me. I want to leave this world not the same way I found it when I was born. I want to make a…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Discussion Topic: Scope creep….when your project changes in the forum Project Management Knowledge Areas 8 years ago
For my capstone design project, my team and I were in charge of designing a wearable watch and an app in order to help autistic children incorporate into society. The team was doing everything on time. However we applied to different grants at the beginning of the semester, by the time we found out that we had received the grant, the semester was…[Read more]
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