by Ryan | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Several weeks ago, I had a conversation with Dr Richardson about the different types of activities typically done within manufacturing engineering. At the beginning of the conversation, he said something like “Well first there’s sustaining, which is frankly a lot of...
by Ryan | Jul 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
The end of this week marks the halfway point for my internship at Boston Scientific. It’s hard to believe it’s almost over! It seems like just yesterday we were in orientation, and the day before that that we got to Costa Rica. An exciting thing that’s happened over...
by Ryan | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
This past week in my internship at Boston Scientific, I started working on my primary project. When one of Boston’s product lines first entered production, they used a particular technology to conduct one of the fabrication steps. However, in recent years, they began...
by Ryan | Jul 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week was the start of our internship at Boston Scientific, which will take up the rest of our time here in Costa Rica. My (and Josh’s) role for the next six weeks is to support manufacturing engineers through various projects. So far, it’s been a bit of a slow...
by Ryan | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week, we made our way back to San Jose, the nation’s capital, for a Medical Device Implementation short course. The class was taught by our own Dr Richardson to the 8 GMI students and 25 professionals from medical device companies in San Jose. “Implementation” is...
