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NCarrillo
@nick-carrillo
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Topics: 3 / Replies: 33
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RE: When and How Should Engineers Speak Up to Leadership?

From personal experience, there are a variety of ways to approach such a situation, especially when you need to work with other teams or departments; ...

2 days ago
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RE: Leadership or Management — What Drives Better Teams?

Mohammad, you provided great definitions for introducing both concepts. I’ll add to your points by explaining how these concepts really pan out in a r...

3 days ago
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RE: Design Controls vs Project Management — Why Do We Keep Mixing Them Up?

Design teams might confuse Design Controls and Project Management because they both involve overhead control. Where Design Controls focus on the desig...

5 days ago
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RE: Are We Over-Relying on FMEAs?

FMEAs are indeed a useful tool for evaluating the types of failures a system could experience if one (or several) of its components fail. This is espe...

1 week ago
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RE: Risk Acceptance

I believe risk acceptance and its effect(s) are directly tied to the quality of the risk assessment itself, which also affects the form of a response ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Hazard, Hazardous, Harm

During my time as a co-op at GAF, I have witnessed a variety of hazards that had to be mitigated, mostly within the R&D labs. Each of the labs had...

2 weeks ago
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RE: How Many Design Reviews Are Enough?

@shreya This is a great set of ideas to build upon for the complexities of developing & reviewing a potential product, especially regarding livin...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Verification vs. Validation — Do We Really Need Both?

Both processes are necessary to ensure the product pleases two key stakeholders: the company itself and its customers. Maintaining this distinct diffe...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Efficiency or Compliance?

Ideally, you’d imagine companies doing both. They need to fulfill regulatory requirements for the sake of remaining compliant, but they must strive to...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Impact of customer feedback on design inputs

Design teams, from my experience, tend to prioritize the most realistic aspects of a design. The end goal is to meet the customer’s requirements, yes,...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Bridging the Gap Between Users Needs and Design Inputs

Hi Jacob, you’ve provided a great definition of what makes an effective design input. There’s actually a mechanism that Dr. Simon discussed this week ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Minutes for meetings

Meeting minutes are a useful tool for logging significant portions of a meeting, especially when discussing subjects such as design reviews/controls. ...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Placebo Effect

Unlike a good portion of the responses here, I believe the placebo effect is a reliable way to keep patients and researchers from having implicit expe...

1 month ago
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RE: Clinical Trial Participation

Patients participating in a study should generally be compensated in some form, including financially. This is dependent on several factors, namely th...

1 month ago
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