@jr377 I had to take a look at my phone to confirm you were actually right about most of my apps being blue. I hadn’t even realized this! I agree with all the reasons you mentioned why blue is a…   Read more»

I agree that there definitely is a difference in perspective when it comes to what company you would like to work for vs what company you would like to run. At the end of the day, everyone wants to profit…   Read more»

I think this is a great question. As a current engineer working in the field at an entry level position, I would have to say that my day to day tasks do not involve with being concerned with shareholder opinions…   Read more»

@krp76 I would have to agree with you on that your first few jobs out of college should be focused on gaining experience. To be honest I never even considered looking into a company’s health prior to applying or accepting…   Read more»

To be completely honest, I didn’t know Quality was an area I could work in as a BME let alone that a department like Post Market Surveillance existed until I received my offer letter to intern in said department. So…   Read more»

As an intern in Quality (specifically Post Market Surveillance) I worked on a lot of root cause investigations for complaints and filled the appropriate paperwork to determine how the instrument malfunctioned. This included reviewing manufacturing batch records, lot numbers to…   Read more»

When I worked in Post Market Surveillance, one issue we noticed was the ability to gain appropriate information in a timely manner. Since Post Market deals with a lot of customer complaints (the customer being the surgeons), communication for additional…   Read more»

As many people have mentioned, funding could be an issue, but personally I don’t think this is as big of an obstacle as many believe. Most doctors have many connections and could easily find a partner or investor. I think…   Read more»

This is a topic that has come to my concern as well as you would think what’s considered an unsafe product in one country would be consistent in others as well but that doesn’t seem to be the case. For…   Read more»

@troy-lovette I think you bring up a really important point that the industry procedures should constantly be updated to increase efficiency and its relevancy today. As mentioned in the course, a lot of policies that were initially enacted had to…   Read more»

@rajamharrison I think you did a great job highlighting an important idea that interspecies differences does exist. Even within humans we’ve seen remarkable differences in who presents Covid symptoms, who is asymptomatic, who survives, and who dies from the virus….   Read more»

@justinjts I agree that the budget is definitely a huge aspect to consider. I would also be curious to know the timeline for funding if it requires additional funding beyond the students’ senior year. Furthermore, I would also add an…   Read more»

Personally, I don’t think one approach is superior than the other. If anything, they both are intermingled and highly dependent on the other. For instance, in industry a lot of companies will buy smaller start-ups that often form from academic…   Read more»

Although I haven’t worked on a project with 2 project managers I have joined a company that has both a professional and project manager. If you look at the “project” being myself I guess this could count as most similar…   Read more»

@bjv9 I would have to disagree that there is no instance a milestone can be considered a success. While I do understand that involved members have the responsibility to execute due diligence early on in the process, I don’t think…   Read more»

A recent example of encountering an obstacle would be when I had to lead an experiment at work. It was a complex experiment that I had shadowed a similar version of previously, however I still found myself bombarded with issues…   Read more»

I know the question focuses on NJIT’s masters program but I would like to make the distinction that I do think its important to have a larger academic courses proportion during a student’s undergrad as its important to have a…   Read more»

It has been almost a year and a half since the pandemic changed our ways of working and forced the world to adapt to a new way of life. I joined the workforce during this time and as a lab…   Read more»

I think it’s interesting that this thread began in 2018 yet the premise of this question still exists to this day (in 2021) and most likely for many years to come. We’ve all heard of the phrase “jack of all…   Read more»