by Chandler | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
My grandparents often ask me what I like designing as an engineer, but what they don’t realize is all the behind-the-scenes work that goes from conceptualizing a device idea to bringing it to market. I can understand their confusion, though. In my undergraduate...
by Anna | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
This past week we began our final short course with Costa Rican professionals from various companies. I was looking forward to this course as it contained a broad overview of all divisions of medical devices: Research & Development, Legal, Manufacturing,...
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...
by Karlee | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
The medical device product development process consists of three main steps: identification, innovation, and implementation. We spent our first several weeks in Costa Rica focused on identifying unmet needs throughout various hospitals in the country, including...
by Callie | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week, Dr. Richardson led us in another short course. He employed the model of learn-by-doing as we created a presentation every afternoon regarding our product and incorporating what we had learned in the morning. We were in groups with professionals in the...
