Using a variety of animals improves reproducibility by ensuring that results are not limited to a specific species' unique physiology. Different animals, such as rodents, pigs, or monkeys, may respond...

The manufacturers ensure biocompatibility by working extensively with a variety of engineers across a device’s lifecycle by carefully selecting and testing materials under ISO 10993 guidelines to eval...

I personally would enjoy doing research in industry. From my experience, I had the opportunity to work with novel and cutting edge technology for the first time and that's primarily due to the company...

I'd agree that BME does dive into a lot of other disciplines and you never go beyond a surface level understanding. While I did have a similar dilemma early on in my college career, I found that BMEs ...

A project manager can address budget concerns by reassessing the risks and identifying where costs can be optimized. From my own experience where we felt that we were allocating too much funds too, we...

From my experience and industry and participating in various team dynamics and being under different managers, I noticed that the most successful teams were built on transparency, trust, and open comm...

Some outstanding qualities that I've noticed in project managers were adaptability. Adaptability is an essential quality to have because projects rarely go exactly as planned- unexpected challenges, s...

A medical device that comes to mind in lieu of this topic would be the Acurate Heart Valve from Boston Scientific which was recently cancelled in May. An official statement regarding the cancellation ...

In my personal experience in industry and from the few projects I've worked on with the respective company; I doubt that AI will "control" the medical industry, but it is certainly being used as a too...

I’m a big advocate for internships and co-ops because they give you a problem-solving experience that’s pretty different from what you get in the classroom. Like a few others have mentioned here, they...