Yes, you have raised a very good point, I experienced that when I was working on a project for a company called SEL. My team consisted of 4 people and we were electrifying a community really closed to our installations. It is worth it of mentioning that this company was small and everyone knew each other and what we were all working on. However,…[Read more]

When I used to do projects for an electrical engineering company, the Project Manager of the company would let me create the electrical circuit diagrams based on the location, and needs of the people in the community where I was doing the project. Some features I would always use was transformers, and other electrical components using programs…[Read more]

I do think that a pathway such as the one you mentioned is followed most of the time. However, no matter how hard you try there will always be delays. From personal experience, our team was providing electrical power to a community far from the city in my original country. We planned everything to the point that the utility poles would be placed…[Read more]

The only design review meeting I have been present in was conducted by the leader who would be moving from point to point in the agenda. The other members would be adding important comments and/or questions to whatever points were brought in the agenda. As Hiren mentioned in one of the points mentioned before, the meeting was not as strict as you…[Read more]

In my personal experience as an electrical engineer, I have used the technique of mitigating the risk multiple times when connecting electric transformers in multiple communities. The company I worked for, had specific workers whose job was to make sure the conducting wires in utility poles have enough tension and overall in charge of connecting…[Read more]

As some of my classmates stated above, the review design meetings I have been involved have been very fast. The lecture suggests that you send out the document some time prior to the beginning of the meeting. However, when you are so busy, this task is not as essential as other responsibilities which are under your job description. I would say…[Read more]

Hello Lamiaa, you have brought up a very good point. In my personal case, I have not dealt with any of those problems, however a close friend who works in the accounting department of a company mentioned to me that they missed a receipt for a minor purchase in the inventory and the government found out about it and they penalized him with a fine…[Read more]

You have raised a very interesting point, before taking this class I did not know all these terms, I used to only say that we were under budget, ahead/behind schedule, etc. In my particular case, during my capstone project, my team proposed an original budget of $150, the real price of our product was $90 but the professor, advisor and the team…[Read more]

I can see that the scenario you are bringing up is similar to the one in the mini sim 2. Personal differences will always occur, but the as a Project Manager you need to make all your team aware that in the work space, it is mandatory to finish the project on time and with good quality. Personal differences usually lead to communication problems…[Read more]

You have brought up a very interesting point. There will always be obstacles when doing international business/projects. However, the difficulty of overcoming some will be harder than others. For example: Language could typify a high obstacle between the countries trying to get the project done, however nowadays a lot of people speak English, if…[Read more]

Hello, I understand the point you are trying to bring up.

There is no doubt that the real business does not happen when a customer decides to choose your company to do a project, the real business happens when that same customer comes back satisfied to your company in a satisfied way and asks you to do a second project because the first one was…[Read more]

happen when a customer decides to choose your company to do a project, the real business happens when that same customer comes back satisfied to your company in a satisfied way and asks you to do a second project because the first one was excellent. Missing a milestone causes the project manager to miss all the due dates previously established. I…[Read more]

Being a project managers is not easy, it is a position that requires a lot of experience, responsibility and good organization skills. My boss is a project manager with a very broad experience in Electrical Engineering projects. There was this time that we were doing a project for a very important person from the government. Our boss knew that…[Read more]

As an undergraduate student here, I never talked about the FDA from my freshman to junior years. However now in my senior year I have been able to understand how projects are actually done in the Industry because of this class. I had taken Dr. Simon previously for BME684 which is development of Medical Devices and I was able to learn a lot of…[Read more]

Hello,

There was one time that my team had placed leads in certain places of torso, legs and ankles in order to track the leads using a tracking program. The purpose of this was to collect data in order to analyze and try to maximize the degrees of freedoms in hip prosthetic joints. The team had originally planned to put leads around the leg and…[Read more]

You have raised a very good point.

I have to say that WBS is probably one of the top 3 most important aspects when doing a project. The projects I did was for a small company and therefore knowing the due dates for the different stages of the project was very easy because we had great communication between the team members. The advantage of…[Read more]

Hello, for my capstone design project, my team was in charge of developing an app for autistic individuals. The app would be created in an android system and it would connect via Bluetooth to a watch (which we develop). The messages send to the watch would be positive reinforcement such as good job and bad reinforcement such as “don’t do tha…[Read more]

I believe budget cut would affect all the phases of the project. When you are initiating it if you require $10,000 in order to develop and assemble the final product but you only have $6,000 for the project then the product can’t be finalized. On the same way you also have to pay the salary to the team. When you measure the risks, if you come u…[Read more]

For my Capstone Design class, my team was in charge of developing a wearable watch for autistic kids. This watch would be connected to an Android app which would be developed by us as well. The purpose of this product is to send messages to the kids while they are in class, the messages would include positive reinforcement, pay attention and…[Read more]