6: Sam Stuart - Innovation and The Octopus of Quality

That Thing I Did For A Year

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

Ready Set Zen travel blog!

Headspace

Isowater Corporation

Sam's TED talk!

Email Sam at [e-mail]

Music by Shawn Lee