(00:25:13) Podcast Clip of
6: Sam Stuart - Innovation and The Octopus of Quality
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Up this week is Sam Stuart, our first MSE student! She did her PEY at Synaptive Medical and did a research exchange in Liverpool, while also doing some intellectual property consulting on the side.
Notes
0:00 - Being picky in applying for PEY jobs, interviewing for Synaptive Medical
1:50 - Canada Wide Science Fair, research background, ending up doing research and getting an interest in biology
5:15 - What Synaptive Medical does - robotic surgery
7:20 - What it means to work in quality: minimizing risk
10:57 - Learning curve working on a high tech product
12:45 - Learning to code
15:32 - Good days, bad days - bad day at work, burnout, learning to meditate
21:04 - Applying for research exchange through the CIE
22:20 - Improving fitting practices for contact lenses in Liverpool, for the BBC reporters!
25:30 - Travelling and travel blogging, hitting 20 countries over the summer, Headspace
28:07 - Learning to do IP inside a company and how that’s different from doing that at a law firm
34:05 - What you have to do to become a patent agent, and how an engineering background is useful for it
38:00 - Changes in plans to go to grad school, design + research based masters
41:15 - Giving a TEDx talk in Collingwood and working on outreach and having engineers share their stories
Links
Email Sam at samantha.stuart@mail.utoronto.ca
Music by Shawn Lee
