by Hannah | Aug 7, 2018 | Hannah
A New Family Before getting onto the plane from Chapel Hill, NC to Houston TX, I did not know what to expect. The only impression of my 11 soon-to-be classmates I had was through GroupMe discussions about housing or Rice University’s mandatory health checkup. On top...
by Hannah | Jul 26, 2018 | Hannah
This week was the first time I began making progress for my implementation project: MilkyWaves. I’ll be working with Christine to further develop this device into a product which could be used by various hospitals in Costa Rica. MilkyWaves Mission One of the most...
by Hannah | Jul 20, 2018 | Hannah
Cooking Up Something Good This week I spent a lot of time running tests and prototyping concepts in Boston Scientific’s engineering lab. The highlight of this week was creating and testing different material coatings for Boston Scientific’s new ureteral stent. As I...
by Hannah | Jul 10, 2018 | Hannah
Boston Scientific Project Update New Acquisition I’ve defined several previously unidentified components and vendors for Boston Scientific’s newly acquired product. My main goal is to complete the Supplier Definition Form in order to submit it to the Supplier...
by Hannah | Jul 3, 2018 | Hannah
Exploratory The majority of New Projects are in the Exploratory or early Product Development (PD) stage. This means that the Research and Development (R&D) department is very open to improvements and variations to the design. I’ve always been intrigued by the...
by Hannah | Jun 27, 2018 | Hannah
Project Scopes My second week at Boston Scientific (BSCI) has consisted of refining my project scopes and building my network of contacts around the company. Sylvie and I are now working closely on three of BSCI’s new product projects: An acquisition of a medical...
