I agree with everyone opinion, but communication is an important key for the relationship between the departments because if one of the departments finds a problem, they need to alert the rest of the departments. A company does not run with one department, it runs with multiple departments because the all have a purpose which intertwines.…[Read more]

An idea to improve quality control is having a better communication environment with the group because if there is misinterpretation they will run into situation that can affect the company. People should be able to communicate their thoughts with each other because it will help them be on top their work and improve their work. Another idea would…[Read more]

The DORO Lucent Headrest System has been recalled. It is supposed to support the head and neck during brain or spinal surgeries while the patient being still. However, DORO® LUCENT Base Unit, Locking Transitional Member, and Transitional Member were fitting properly which could cause harm and even death because during surgery one slip cut in the…[Read more]

I do agree that the FDA rules are strict, and it delays the release of some products that can change the world. But I said some products because there are products that can harm instead of helping which makes the strict rules very important. The FDA should preform new tests that will be able to test the accuracy and precision faster because some…[Read more]

Accuracy and precision are defiantly important when it comes to medical devices. Accuracy is the target goal that the device has produce and precision is how close each outcome, are from each other when being used. Any miss calculation can injury or even kill the person that bought the device. All medical device should be safe for people and…[Read more]

To decide if animal testing is ethical or not is tough decision because there a numerous of product that we used today were first tested on animal. But on the same time the number of animals that die is awful because they are being picked off one by one with them not giving consent. If another species that did that to us we will get angry because…[Read more]

To test the biocompatibility of a new material device you go through the ISO 10993­1 Test Matrix check list. There are several tests that needs to be preformed on the new material device. For example: cytotoxicity, carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, irritation and more. The new material must go through some of the tests, it will depend on what the…[Read more]

I think doing research for the future and current generation are both important, but we must focus on doing research for the current generation because solving current problems can assist or open the doors for future problem solutions. I am not saying to forget about doing research for the future, but you should always keep it in the back of your…[Read more]

The obstacle that my group and I ran into our capstone project was in the fabrication of our product because we had to electrospin our solutions. One of our component was able to electrospin but the other unfortunately, was not able to. This delayed us because our product consist of the two component. As we saw the deadline was approaching, we had…[Read more]

The only project managing software, I worked with was Microsoft Project for my capstone class. My group and I had to spread out our task because it takes time and multiple steps/stages to complete our project so we created the Gantt Chart from Microsoft Project. It made it easy for use to see what we had to complete in order to proceed to the next…[Read more]

I do not consider that missing a milestone a failure or a success, it is bad but I feel it is a wakeup call that “Hey, you did not achieve the goal you set for completing the project. You have to do something different because what you are doing is not working.” In capstone, we had to write weekly reports that included any missed milestone, if any…[Read more]

Yes, I do agree that biomedical engineering is useful because it is a diverse major, you learn biology, chemistry, mechanics, engineering, etc. Biomedical engineering not one skill set, it’s multiple. Knowing all these skill sets are useful because you can branch out to other careers besides biomedical. However, knowing is not helpful, you need h…[Read more]

I agree that student should be taught 50/50 in practical and informational course because as Dr.Simon and other stated, people who are fresh out of school go to jobs and are dumbfounded by what they are being ask to do. They have no experience because majority of school just give background information, which is good, but in order to work in any…[Read more]

The arguments that I would present to someone in favor of working in academia would be what everyone has stated, which are flexibility in their schedules, work independently, traveling, and good benefits. Academia are free to do anything they want in their own pace because they are not working under anyone. They do not have a specific time set.…[Read more]