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jfm23
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Joined: Jan 24, 2026
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RE: What’s Your Motivator?

I believe what motivates me the most is the impact of my projects. Thinking about who it will help and how it will help them. As biomeds we have a uni...

2 days ago
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RE: Why do people work?

I was at first surprised how low meaningful work was in the list then thought about it. If your job has poor pay with a bad work environment and borin...

2 days ago
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RE: Engineer vs. Manager

I really enjoy making stuff. My heart lies with R&D, but I would like a managerial role as well. I believe my best path is learning as much as I c...

2 days ago
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RE: Motivation factors

Sometimes you have to weight what yo love about the job and some other options that may be available to you. But if you are loving what yo do, and are...

1 week ago
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RE: Why Do People Leave?

I think each point you listed has a strong effect on employee retention. Satisfaction is strong cause you need to be doing the work you want to be doi...

1 week ago
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RE: Motivation

I believe working to prevent demotivation within their current workforce is more important. Any self motivated individual will eventually get burnt ou...

1 week ago
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RE: Vendor Decision

As the sim stated that at first we were not even going to have a backup supplier in the first place, I thought one would be fine. I also only liked on...

2 weeks ago
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RE: QA vs QC

From my experience, I have found that QC focuses on testing devices during the manufacturing and R&D process to ensure they meet expected standard...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Things to look for in a contract while selecting a supplier

For contracts I would focus more on the business end of things as well as quality. If both companies have equal products, I would look at how strict t...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Difficulty of a Project

I am in agreeance that for me right now understanding budgeting is the most difficult. I believe that once we are exposed to industry experience we wi...

3 weeks ago
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RE: project Coast

What are some reasons that increase the cost of the project, and how to avoid them? There are plenty of reasons that can increase the cost of a proj...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Project Management Knowledge Areas

@qbs2 Deciding priorates is a difficult task that may change job to job. We saw in one of the recent simulations how budget and quality can go head...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Medical Device Companies

Firstly, thank you for making this post, I am really enjoying the responses and learning about personal experiences at companies nearby. I had worke...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Premature approval and rushing products to market

It causes a big ethical dilemma when trying to decide between getting a product out on the market to help patients as soon as possible and delaying th...

1 month ago
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RE: Collaborative Research in Academia and Industry

The researchers and industry need to start their relationships with very clear expectations of what can and cannot be shared with clear terms to their...

1 month ago
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