People leave work because of "limited recognition and praise" but they stay for "exciting, challenging work." If the work is interesting but there is ...
This was a nice and revealing question. I enjoyed reading everyone's posts. I would stay and work for a company if the work interested me. I want a fu...
I feel as engineers we can take one of two career paths, administrative or research based. If you want to follow an administrative path, partiality is...
A collection of some drawbacks experienced by most risk analysis methods: 1. Slight variations between similar projects/medical devices. Difficulty e...
I am definitely feeling the pressures of scope creep as I near closer to my Master's defense. I made the mistake of waiting until the last month to ru...
Simply, the rate of return is profit, it could be a dollar amount or percentage of how much was invested. It is impossible to know exactly what the ra...
I don't have any med-tech industry experience but I imagine the design review experience being tense for the product developing team. Passing a design...
A product risk can be a faulty release mechanism on a drug delivering device. Under FMEA this would be a Concept Design / Hardware risk where we could...
Recalls are a very interesting topic, nice post. Recalls are done, not by the company that designs and develops the product, but by the manufacturer o...
ECOs admit that no design is ever completely perfect, infallible. They are neither a positive or negative event, ECOs are an eventuality. The cause co...
I was lucky enough to choose a Capstone project where we did not have to pay for anything, all of our parts were given to us from previous attempts at...
There are many reasons why tracking time is an important practice for any company or organization. Some include: 1) Following the progress of the proj...
A lot has already been said in this post, but teamwork and a PM's handling of team management is a very important prevalent topic. I think the best ap...
I agree here. The suppliers you want to be dealing with are well-established and are known for their high quality materials. In fact build a relations...
Some tools/techniques that can be used to assess quality assurance include: Fishbone Diagram. In this cause-and-effect type diagram factors causing ...