Intentional Energy
One of my favorite concepts to talk about for the past several years is Genius of the AND. If you haven't previously read about it, please check out my post…
Graduation Day
Today, students from the UNC and NC State Biomedical Engineering class of 2018 will cross the stage and receive their diplomas after 4 (or 5 or more) years of very…
What is Innovation? Part 2
In this two part blog series, I'm exploring the definition of "innovation" in an effort to bring clarity to a word that has been overused and genericized. In Part 1, innovation…
What is Innovation? Part 1
For the past twelve years, my academic scholarship has been primarily focused on teaching a process of innovation. This is an area of great interest and philosophical debate. As a…
Trig Newsletter Guest Post
Took a break this week from my personal blog and humbly accepted the opportunity to write a guest post in Trig's Newsletter: The Killer Experiment. Health & Happiness for All…
Medical Innovation: Collaboration is Key
Today I gave a talk at the NC State Engineers' Council Lecture Series. With that, I'm going to take a break from the "Case Studies of Why" posts and, instead, blog…
The Axis of Abstraction
When writing What Matters a few weeks ago, I didn't expect it to turn into a multipart series, but, here we are in part three of (?). Last week, we…
Start with Why
After writing the "What Matters" post last week, I've received great feedback from friends and strangers through emails and posts. Some of my favorite topics included: How do we rank and…
What Matters
In 2001 I landed a job as a design engineer at Alaris Medical Systems (now part f BD). It was there I learned design controls and the Waterfall Design Process…