It's not in all caps, he did not write it. That was far too coherent and too many big words.
Well the last bit of retribution matters. If you don't agree with him or people who support him, that doesn't care about state lines and is a direct reduction of civil liberty.
We also have to keep in mind we will still have to federal taxes, but for what. Project 2025 already said it would eliminate things like head start, so yeah WA could make up that difference, but that will be an additional dollar burden.
Then there is the fact somethings just can't be state only, that is why we had made the good neighbor law. Say Idaho wants to belch out what ever toxic games they want or test a nuclear bomb at the border of their state or pollute rivers that feed into other watersheds not in the state.
They also want to defund Medicare and medicaid.
Then there is their ability to impose federal law or ahem executive orders. Here is some of tbe wishlist of items they would so dearly want in project 2025: complete abortion ban, porn is illegal, divorce is essentially illegal, reinstate comstock law (this could even lead to not being able to access any birth control).
They would also like to make teaching the Bible mandatory, if it's a federal Mandate, what can we do?.I am a Christian, and I am abhorred at the situation in Oklahoma right now. Faith cannot be forced.
I am not afraid because of what the left says, I am terrified because of what comes out of the right's mouths. Just look at Trumps truth social posts. With the SC ruling nothing would stop trump from having someone hung because they speak bad about him...all he would have to say the person is creating civil unrest and speaking lies, this is a threat to our peace and stability therefore it is my official duty to see them tried and hung for treason.
It wouldnt be as bad if the SC had not said Trump can do whatever he wants as long as its an "official" act. Trump was executive order happy in his first term. This will skyrocket with SCs ruling.
The project 2025 team is helping Trump and is collecting resumes of loyalists to replace anyone not loyal to Trump. They have literally said this. They will probably remove the EPA, so your right to not have oooz coming out of your tap, eh is dependent on state. All agencies fall under the executive branch, like worker protections, kiss that goodbye.
Then there is medical care for miscarriages. Very possibly the right to birth control since they want the comstock act to come back. They want to make divorce essentially illegal. A state is already trying to do this.
Oh then there is freedom of religion, that will be gone. The speaker of the house has said that's a misnomer. Other politicians say that was not the founding fathers intent. Look at Oklahoma, until it gets through the courts, public school teachers shall teach from the Bible or lose their jobs.
The fact that Trump made remarks that his supporters won't need to go to the voting booths...why? This really could be the last election we get to vote.
Ultimately it will be the end of freedom of speech. It's all over project 2025 and in Trumps own words in the sense thou shall not criticise dear leader. He is promising retribution to those who oppose him. We would become similar to Russia in that extent.
It wasn't even a week after after the SC decision on immunity that Trump said that he will have Liz Cheny, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnel, etc face a televised military tribunal for treason.
Project 2025, they 💯 plan to reform NIH so they can fire everyone who won't tow the line and it will be reformed in conservative values...for what ever the f that means for an agency that researches health.
This 💯 Jesus said to go and minister to people, help them etc. No where in there did he say go out and make them conform. If they don't comply, throw them in jail or worse. That bit very much not in there.
I LOLed so much when I read that nonsense.
And then they went on to say Dems are the reason small businesses closed 🙄 You know GOP says they love business, but what the mean is they love BIG business. What has the GOP done, ever, to protect small business other than say you can treat workers like cattle.
They could give more tax breaks specially to businesses with under a certain amount of employees, but they don't. All those sweet tax breaks are only realized at bigger business levels. And they sure as crap won't do a thing about monopolies.
If you plan on putting the current co-op on a resume, finish the semester. If you don't want to do more semesters after that cool, but nothing looks worse on a resume than lack of commitment. Also, they expect you to be there for that semester, they picked you over someone else. You kind of owe it to stick it out for the semester.
If you decide you want more co-op experience, by all means look at other companies for options, it gets you even more perspective and experience. Most peeps I know co-oped for more than one company.
You may not be doing much, yet, but everyone has to start somewhere and it takes them a bit to find suitable projects.
If you plan on working in industry, 3 co-ops will get you farther than a masters in terms of jobs. You can work on your masters while working and get paid for it. Also, if you want to go to into industry prior to a PhD, any experience is good experience. And I hate to say this, but industry still prefers mechanical over biomedical...as a biomedical you have to sell your engineering skills that are relevant.
Also, if industry is the preferred route, most people's careers are not a straight line. Learn what you can, when you can and plan for how to acquire skills for where you want to be. I and 2 other interns I knew at a medical device company were tissue engineering focused in our classes, so we worked on bioresorbable device development, it was hell finding a job in something like tissue engineering without a PhD. Two of us don't work in tissue engineering, the other became a manager. I still use the skills from my internships and my tissue engineering courses to be able to do my job.
Anywho, my final thought, don't throw solidworks experience out the window. There will be test fixtures and etc that will need to be designed. The one intern I knew used solid works to make a scaffold to grow an ear. The bioresobable products we made needed a shape and annealing fixtures. I would also say, for bio artificial organ development, computer modeling and simulation will be an incredibly important tool for accelerating development. Ansys can use solidworks models (there can also be some minor simulations run in solidworks alone)... they also have a special department that works on helping people model tissues and organs to understand things like device performance, mass transfer, fluid dynamics in vessels and the like. Solidworks could be the stepping stone to using more advanced tools like Ansys.
I would concur, there isn't much in industry, which then you would be better off in a lab, but it does require knowing you will commit to a PhD and the the subsequent 2 year post doc. While you get paid for a PhD and a post doc, it's not a lot. So it will be a bit tedious to pay down student loans if you have them. Also depending on your retirement goals too...it's going to be harder to save.
It should have been drafted after that disaster where they called $13k a token gift of appreciation and government officials are allowed to accept token gifts.
That facts, evidence, truth, knowledge and integrity matters. I remember having to have legitimate sources to write papers, even opinion positions.
That everything I learned about science and acting with integrity is in fact just garbage because we live in a society who thinks it's okay to ignore experts, let's people who think women can just think and not get pregnant make laws about women.
It even is more abhorrent when I think about this coming from so called Christians. I think Jesus would be very PISSED off that we as a society prefer letting the rich exploit everything because we just might be rich one day too.
Ensure kids are fed, clothed, housed and educated...no that's not the governments job, but it IS the governments job to make sure you can quote the Bible.
Ensure that pregnant women, infants, children and etc won't be poisoned from the air and water we breathe, nope regulating industry to prevent sickness and death is not the governments job.
Vaccines, environmental protections, global warming etc are not debatable items. Why does it have to be I never saw it happen to me
In the end, the fact that not facts (e.g. the election was stolen) can just be espoused by government officials with no repercussions just baffles me.
IN THE END I have seen its not the best person for the job, the most educated, the best track record etc who wins, it's the loudest a%$hat with good charisma that wins.
It depends if you plan on selling the device/ using the device in the states. If you are not listed and registered (which I am not sure how the clearance came about and not result in that), then you can go to jail 😉
No one registers with the FDA for a benefit other than the right to distribute the cleared device without going to jail.
You have to comply with all registration and reporting requirements when distributing the device. One of the reasons you must be registered is they slot you in on when they will come audit or you have to prove you are going through MDSAP.
That said, they can surprise visit you at any time for an inspection. They are supposed to stop by on a somewhat regular basis and they choose what that is based on risk of the device etc.
There are no expirations on device clearances. Now, if you make substantive changes, you may have to get another clearance before distributing the updated device.
I didn't realize it got easier. Way back when it was a phone interview and it was 60 questions in 60 minutes. Can't remember if it was 60 questions or more like 120...this is why. They would ask things like are you a top achiever and you would say yes or no or it would be a multiple choice style to say which fit you best and immediately after it would be "tell me of a time when in the last 2 weeks you demonstrated" being a top achiever, helped a co worker etc.
After the interview, I was dead for the rest of the day.
This and so much more. When he went on about the environment and everything was cleaner when he was president, no it wasn't. In fact Trump as at the helm of rolling back more than a 100 environmental protections. From journalistic standards he should have been called out for that crazy banana bs.
After that bat craziness, all debates should have a reserved time at the end that is for fact checking the obvious lies with evidence and be like you said you didn't say X here is a clip of you saying that, what are your thoughts. You said babies are killed aborted after birth, that is called infanticide and is illegal already. And so on.
For all the good it will do, I am going to contact my reps to say we need a law that penalizes government officials and those running to be a government official for publicly espousing verifiable lies. I mean if I buy a product that says it can cure cancer and it doesn't at all in anyone, that company will face consequences. Why isn't there the same level of scrutiny for public officials?
I just have had enough, we are where we are because Trump and his ilk are constantly repeating obvious lies and there are no real repercussions other than the democrats going that's not true. Yes people should do their digging, but most won't and let's be honest some just can't. We shouldn't allow lies like Trump saying he is proenvironment when he literally put a coal owner in charge of the EPA and as such rolled back a lot of protections, to shape public perceptions.
We as a country need to stop accepting that anything that comes out of the mouth is free speech that is free of consequences. Blantant lies should not be free of consequences.
It can definitely be a technical heavy role. They may have thought of you being a good QE because you are doing things in their eyes of what a QE does.
I would ask them what they think the role is and if there is something you want to be added that fit in an "independent" realm that you really like doing. Like usability evaluation or the like.
Frame it with if you go down that road you would like to pursue continuing development of those technical skills.
Additionally, point out that it will help alleviate design to focus more on designing etc as well as doing those activities will keep you well integrated into the team so you can better navigate the nuance that matters when in the grey areas..."it depends" is a very common phrase from QE (there is black and white stuff...but that seems to rarely come up).
If you end up you like software down the road, could go software quality. At most places it is the software quality peeps who write and execute the test scripts.
So in the end, it can be a very technical role, but you have to be intentional, especially in Design Assurance. Each company implements DA and well other QE responsibilities differently. And sometimes, depending on atmosphere and desire it can be influenced to take on new responsibilities by showing or offering that do x because there is bandwidth, aligns with QE skills, and provides benefit. I bounced out of my second company because QE there was nothing but a document jockey.
Yeah. I mean over in the medical tech space they get financially audited to death to make sure they aren't bribing clinicians and healthcare facility officials using gratuities to encourage them to use their particular lawfully cleared safe and effective solution over another company's lawfully cleared safe and effective solution...violation can mean jail time.
But hey, it's totes fine to give "gratuities" to government officials in charge of making, amending and enforcing the law. Don't see any potential issues there. /s
A BME with 10yrs+ years NPD quality experience from startup (where I was the RA/QA "manager") to the behemoths.
At a startup, you have a unique opportunity to turn the QE role into what it should be. Companies that treat QEs as engineers and not just compliance document jockeys have projects that run generally better and launch with better quality.
Utilizing QE beyond compliance involves assigning certain relevant parts of project deliverables. The most satisfying job I had was owning the top-down risk (e.g. hazard analysis based on funtional outputs...kind of like a top level system FMEA), usability/HFE evaluation and design validation.
I got to go and document customer visits, watch surgeries, help plan and execute cadaver labs. Watching the customer USE your product is CRUCIAL for a DA QE...it's also helpful to have it so at least one quality rep goes customer evaluations to help ensure the quality of the data collected. Design engineers can get over excited and want to overshare at the beginning, but this can bias the evaluation and results. Then you are making decisions on biased data. One thing a QE must know is the quality of the data, assumptions behind that data and the completeness of it. Otherwise you get GIGO.
Another reason for QE inclusion is accurate risk analysis, it offers an opportunity to probe and expand to know what scenarios actually are real and what aren't. As well as what might be missing from complaints analysis or Maude/mdr/fda tplc data. This is important for risk control development and identifying level of rigor to various output testing.
Also it helps ensure so that it gets documented...which is why I volunteered to document it, otherwise it wouldn't happen :p
The integrative/wholistic thinking with the deeper biology background sets a BME up nicely to excel on those deliverables and add significant value to R&D engineers.
Because how it was set up for NPD, I also owned supplier/component qualification (which FYI look up AIAG PPAP if you don't have a process and copy it...done.) as well as I was the process QE for the new line (wrote inspection procedures etc). I loved this because I really understood the product and all the things that can impact it.
Additionaly, owned facilitating reliability planning and I performed reliabilty analysis, which I was certified for from ASQ.
The ASQ CQE and CRE BOKs give a pretty good idea of the skills of a seasoned QE. Note the CQE covers all aspects of quality that can and often is separated out at larger companies, particularly once you get to sustainment.
Anywho, advanced teams plug in QEs to support things such as robustness planning/quality planning/ APQP. Whether as an owner that facilitates discussion and completion or as a key contributor. Why do this? Quality in one aspect means that your outputs are robust (not close to the edge of failure and the output is insensitive to input variations), are fit for the intended use, and delight the customer for an appropriate price point. You cannot build in quality at verification. If you fail, the available options to fix the issue are limited, still take time and cost $$$$.
So fun relevant factoid, design issues are responsible for a third of recalls. Why? Because manufacturing controls to control bad design will likely fail to some degree. Manufacturing controls to control manufacturing issues works okay, even better though are designs that make manufacturing and/or inspection less of a challenge. And some things, like user interface issues, are purely just design problems.
Anywho, if you decide to take the opportunity, think about what you want and how it might work at your company to shape that lead quality engineer role. I am including some fun references if you are curious.
https://www.asq.org/cert/resource/pdf/certification/2022-CQE-BoK.pdf
I know quite a few former classmates from BME that started out in quality and transitioned to R&D. Keep in mind, depending on the background of your BME, e.g. say it's mechanical heavy, new mechanical engineers are not experts either. There is a lot of things I dump in the mechanical bucket that you really learn on the job that make you a successful design engineer including application of statistics/DOE, GD&T, Design Controls, functional analysis and FMEA analysis. Depending on company size, modeling, larger companies have a department that's dedicated to computer simulation, but you can still learn a lot from the tutorials for basics, if you didn't have a class.
The really specialized experts develop areas over time so they are the go to for a particular item/topic and often serve as mentors/guides/independent reviewers.
This is a good point. I will say the more med device quality experience you have, the better your ability to job hop (if that's your thing) or it at least is a leg up if you happened to be laid off. I say this as an experienced QE with a BME background.
If you passed the Gallup (since they said they want to move forward), you will be contacted again. The hiring process is glacial there.
Moved here from a Wisconsin adjacent state, I really miss Culver's. The cheese curds are awesome :)
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