Hopping Projects – From Boston Scientific to GMI

Last week at Boston Scientific was full of practical experiences for me to reflect on. One notable topic was time management in a corporate setting. My two main projects are the supplier investigation and my team’s focus on finishing the test method validation phase...

Let’s Get It Done!

My product team and I had an eventful week! Here’s what was going on at Boston Scientific: Two corporate-level R&D engineers were visiting Speed and volume of our production line output increased The supplier investigation continued and is somewhat urgent We in...

Hooray for Engineering – Graphs and Meetings

We’ve completed internship week five. A main focus of work this week was the continuation of the quality investigation of supplier material. Initially, I was told that the project was of secondary importance, but it turns out that this issue affects thousands of...

Quality – It’s All Over the Place

During this week in the process development department, I was all over the place! More specifically, I used instruments in all parts of my building (at Boston Scientific). Some were new to me, some I had used before, and all of them gave me different insights into our...

Let’s Get Real

This work week, I completed some of the more real tasks engineers do at a big company. Here are some things we work with in the process development department. Cross-functional teams. I’ve heard this term plenty before, but there are tons of combinations of skill sets...