Professional Guidance

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Professional Guidance

• Dr.-Ing. J. Mossbrucker
• Dr. O. Petersen

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GE300 Purpose

• Provides Perspectives On
• Different Engineering Disciplines and Functions
• Professional Issues and Career Planning
• Does the Following
• Vote on Senior Electives/Senior Projects
• Discuss Senior Design/Senior Projects
• Form Plan for Post-Graduation

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What GE300 is is NOT!!!!

• It is intended to be informative
• But being informed is an active process
• YOU must be willing to listen and think and
  PARTICIPATE
• Potential disappointments
• Entertainment aspects are coincidental
• Not all material will be relevant to all of you
• Impossible task with a diverse group
• Course and session feedback used for improvements

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GE300 Course Focus

• Helping you get the job you want
• Career opportunities
• Placement office, Resume writing
• Preparing for the senior year
• Electives, Senior Design
• Career financial planning
• Professional Societies, PE Registration
• Graduate School

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Career Opportunities Example

• What industry?
• Telecommunications
• Automation, etc.
• Mature industries/Startups
• What company within that industry?
• Motorola, ATT, Nortel
• What function within that company?
• System/Component Design
• System Integration
• Customer Applications/Marketing

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Examples of Job Functions

• Research
• Design
• Manufacturing
• Testing
• Product Development

• Components
• Systems
• Interfacing
• Technical Marketing
• Applications

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Something VERY Important

• Do you want to be successful?
• Really?
• What are you doing about it?
• Do you know how to get what you want in life?
• How to prepare for life?
• Do you understand the world you will enter?
• What to say to people?

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Your Future and the Rules of Life

• 80/20 rule - Technical competency
• Assumed, nothing special
• Ratio of time spent on technical versus other
  topics
• 50/50 rule - Professional competency
• Ratio of needed technical versus professional
  skills
• Does this define you?
• Are you prepared for this?
• Are you serious about this?

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GE300 Syllabus

• You are expected to attend ALL scheduled
  lectures/sessions for GE-300.
• In addition, you must hand in the following work
  on the given deadlines
• Assignment Due
• 1. Your Expectations of GE300 W2D1
• 2. Research Paper on a Company W2D1
• 3. Resume and Cover Letter W3D2
• 4. Live-Audience Interview Analysis W3D1
• 5. Career Expectations Upon Graduation W5D1
• 6. Academic Program Explanation to Potential
  Employer W6D1
• 7. Self-Analysis of Professional
  Interests/Senior Year Plan W8D1

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GE300 Syllabus cont.

• How your grade will be determined
• A one-half letter grade reduction will be made to
  your final grade for each of the following
• Each unexcused absence from a lecture
• Late assignment
• A one letter grade reduction will be made to your
  final grade for each of the following
• Unsatisfactory assignment not made up per
  instructors directions
• A grade of F will be given for the course if
  there are
• Any missing assignments as of 1200PM noon,
  Friday, Week 10
• Any missed lectures not made up per the
  instructors directions as of 1200PM noon,
  Friday, Week 10
• Any unprofessional behavior based on the sole
  judgment of the instructors

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Schedule 2005

• Tentative GE300 Schedule Winter 2005-2006
• Day TOPIC
• 11/29/05 GE-300 Purpose, assignments, grades
• 12/01/05 Quality Engineering
• 12/06/05 Gaining Employment, part 1
• 12/08/05 Gaining Employment, part 2
• 12/13/05 A Live-Audience Interview
• 12/15/05 Careers in the Military
• 12/20/05 Teamwork Concepts