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Item How Should Technical Communication Students Best Prepare for Careers in Medical Device Companies?(2014-05-01) Sigstad, HeatherThe Twin Cities is a hotspot for the medical device industry, which has a high demand for technical communicators, so many local technical communication students become interested in finding a career in this field. This study asks the question “how should technical communication students best prepare for careers in medical device companies?” To investigate it, five technical communicators from four medical device companies in the Twin Cities were interviewed about technical communication in the field, possible challenges to new communicators, important skills for this career, and their recommendations for new technical communicators to prepare for a career in this field. Key focus areas (KFAs) for students were identified from the interview results and compared to curricula at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Strengths and gaps were identified between the two, and recommendations on how students should fill those gaps were provided. The goal is to make technical communication students better candidates for positions at medical device companies and increase their success.Item A Technical Communicator’s Role in the Future of Emerging Technologies(2020) Blissenbach, RachelThis research explores the roles, responsibilities, and duties of a technical communicator across varying fields involved with emerging technologies. The purpose of this study was to become more informed about how a technical communicator’s career will change and evolve over the next few years. To find this out, I interviewed 10 people who currently serve as either a technical communicator, someone who works with emerging technologies, or both. Interviews lasted anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes and were conducted in person, over the phone, or through video conferencing software. Those interviewed included two technical writers at a medical device company, one freelancer, one 3D printing engineer, one augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) specialist, one university professor, two technical writers at software companies, one technical writer from a fitness equipment company, and one physician with a background in medical devices and engineering. Interviewees answered a series of 15 questions regarding technical communication, emerging technology, current and past job duties, software programs, and smart devices. Answers were collected and results were examined to provide an educated guess as to what the career of a technical communicator using emerging technologies like smart devices, 3D printers, or AR/VR will look like in the near future.Item Toward Simulation-Based Medical Device Design: Integrating High Performance Cloud FEA Computing Into Intuitive Design Modeling(2012-06-13) Lin, Chi-Lun; Coffey, Dane; Erdman, Arthur; Keefe, DanielWe present a new approach to simulation-based medical device design by integrating current CAD and FEA systems and developing natural human-computer interfaces to control the resulting integrated system. In order to utilize the high performance FEA computing power, a network communication program was developed and a Python script was used to initialize simulations and read calculated results. A complete design process of a breast biopsy cannula was demonstrated.