In this week's lecture, Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements (CDA) and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) were discussed as common agreements between companies. confidentiality agreements are necessary ...

Personally I would always prefer a written agreement over an oral agreement because if disputes about different things come up later down the line, it is difficult to actually make a definite claim th...

To expand upon what others were saying, communication is key to eliminating the possible disadvantage that comes with functional organization, but I want to highlight that this communication is more t...

In this week's lecture, we discussed what should be included in a design development plan, and two of the things suggested was a Ghantt Chart and a Network Diagram. What are the similarities and diffe...

As previously mentioned, a design development plan is necessary to have the project run smoothly. Each of the components contribute to some aspect of the project to allow for all members of the team t...

I agree that safety should be the #1 think risk management and project teams should look into before pushing a product to market. If the medical device is not safe to use then there is no reason it sh...

Conflict of interest is the main factor as to why it wouldn't be ideal to have people who make up the risk management team also be on the project team. While having a member of the project team would ...

In any laboratory setting it is essential that individuals working there are wearing the proper clothing and personal protective equipment necessary with what they are doing. In the lab I work in, we ...

Of course when a product or device fails a validation test, it can be frustrating to get it to start working again. However, as mentioned by others above, there are ways in which this process can be m...

For my senior capstone, we utilized Microsoft Project Professional to make a Gantt chart to depict the timeline of our project. I believe the way a team should organize tasks in a Gantt chart should b...

I mainly had to write out minutes when I worked with a group for a project we were doing for our senior capstone. As people have mentioned before, meeting minutes are essential in the overall document...

While I was taking capstone/senior project my final year of undergrad, we needed to develop a new device from conception and planning, to actually building and testing it. Before this class, I would t...

As mentioned in the earlier lectures by Dr. Simon, planning is a really important step in ensuring that the product being developed is comes out the best it can the first time around. If you do not th...

As a validations engineer, if a product doesn't pass, I would first make a note of what aspect(s) of the product failed and report it immediately. It is important to report any failures immediately in...

The placebo effect is very interesting to me because just simply thinking that you are getting an effective medication could completely change how you feel, simply due to how our brains impact how mu...