The preference between engineer and manager is certainly a personal opinion. The engineering field does often call for the manager to have more techni...

It is absolutely possible for a project to have multiple priorities. Priorities should always be tasks that might affect the timeline of the project. ...

I think many people choose the medical device industry, as it often entails exciting and challenging work. Being able to work with products that impro...

It is important to identify the problems first. There needs to be a clear definition of the problem to determine how it will be dealt with. Is it a de...

The most common method to fill project team spots is to pull from other internal teams within the company. Most companies will have teams dedicated to...

I don't believe this week's simulation was an example of un-ethically rushing a product to market. The license agreement was a business agreement betw...

The scaling of the size of teams is crucial to project performance. In simple terms, you need to have enough people to complete the tasks. As you ment...

Hi All, Unlike most in this course, I am actually a ME Master's student at NJIT. As part of my curriculum, I am allowed to take 3 courses from a...

I would define a successful project as one that has all its tasks completed. In the medical device industry, this can often be releasing a product to ...

Gantt charts are fantastic for laying out the project timeline. The best tool I've seen for creating Gantt charts is Microsoft Project. There are also...

You should not set out to design a verification test that cannot fail. The engineer should strive to design a test that can accurately verify that the...

Working from home definitely has some advantages and some drawbacks. The benefits of this workflow will vary on a case-to-case basis. It obviously dep...

Accounting for the duration of tasks is sometimes more difficult than it sounds. The only real way to know the duration of a task is to just measure i...

Sometimes the success of the new project manager can heavily rely on how diligent the previous project manager was. It will take the new PM some time ...

An important factor in the medical device supply chain is quality. Like any other industry, medical device companies want to optimize costs and increa...