Gantt charts are very important to the project because it highlights the milestones for the project. The critical path is crucial because it ensures the project is running on time and there will be no issues when moving onto the…   Read more»

Design reviews are very important in the success of the product and the company. I have had the pleasure of sitting in a design review meeting in my past internship. The project manager and the engineers involved in the project…   Read more»

Basically what the FDA looks for when they do an audit is to ensure all the documentation is proper and all the protocols are being followed properly. The FDA will try to find anything to mark down. They are not…   Read more»

A DHF is a design history file which is a formal document that is prepared for each document. The DHF contains all the documents needs to produce the product. It contains all the design stuff along design review meetings and…   Read more»

Minutes for meetings are very crucial to a company because it keeps track of everything and what everyone said. We go to many meetings every week and sometime we have more than one meeting a day also. We can not…   Read more»

Placebo controlled trials are needed for clinical trials and they are ethical. As humans, we tend to overthink and overanalyze situations when it is not needed. Most of the placebo trials are done because we feel that medication will help…   Read more»

I think I would like the role of Clinical Quality Assurance Auditor(CQA). Any clinical trial will have a lot of paperwork from the consent forms to the update of the procedure. This might be a tedious job but I believe…   Read more»

I agree with the points the above students have stated. Clinical trials are done because doctors are trying to improve science and medication. There are many ways to test if a medication or a procedure will work but in certain…   Read more»

The four P’s are undoubtedly all equally important. This strategy is a business tool used by a company to produce a desired response from its target market and it consists of everything a company can do to promote demands for…   Read more»

A public company trades in the stock market publicly while the private one does not. A pro about private companies is that do not have to disclose corporate financial information while public companies have to. Because for the private companies…   Read more»

I have participated in three audits over the past two summers where I have worked in the quality area. From what I have learned about audits is to ensure that everyone in the company is familiar with the company’s objective/mission….   Read more»

I have had the oppurtunity to work in the QC and QA department. From what I have seen and experienced as a summer intern, the quality department never had any issues dealing with the other departments or vice versa. Maybe…   Read more»

Products being recalled depends on many reasons and on what type of product it is. From what I can tell you from previous experience, is that that product may not have been for every single test possible. While I was…   Read more»

There are benefits to doing research in industry and academia like you have mentioned before. Everyone does like to see immediate results, that is what makes us human. But working on something for the long run is more beneficial because…   Read more»

There are many issues when having a lab do the experiments from long distance. The main difficulty would getting everything done in time. Many factors play into this when outsourcing. You must keep in mind the holidays observed if the…   Read more»

Undergrad students no matter what major they are need to take advantage of CDSlink which NJIT offers. There are many internships posted on there. And once they apply, they should keep following up on the applications to the companies. When…   Read more»

I have had experience working in the industry for the past two summers as an intern at medical device company.I do not have the experience working the academia but from the video lecture and from hearing from my friends who…   Read more»

I believe that there should be more practical courses for doing masters degree because throughout our undergraduate studies, almost every single one of our classes we take as a biomedical engineer are academic based. We do not have practical classes…   Read more»

I have had only the experience with working with only one manager. With one manager, it is easier to be on the same page and easier to communicate with. If you are struggling with something, you can get help from…   Read more»

In terms of a medical device company, I believe missing a milestone being failure depends on what stage the project is on. If it is on the beginning stages such as the initiating and planning stages, failure of these stages…   Read more»