MEng Concepts Subject Intro-1

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MEng Concepts Subject Intro-1

• Instructors
• Eric Adams
• Chu Eu Ho
• Schedule
• Monday and Wed 845-945
• Friday seminars (w/lunch) 12-1
• Friday project mtgs (at least initially)
• HPS, GEO, IT 1-3
• ENV 3-5

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• Talbot House follow-up
• group and track email addresses to Chu
• first team assignment group name
• Web site
• need a few volunteers to help with project
  
• web pages
• Academic matters
• registration problems
• advising
• classes

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• Attendance
• Intramurals
• Parsons Lab team welcomes all
• Syllabus Goals for subject
• Relationship among Concepts subj
• project thesis

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Themes-1

• What the profession does
• outside professionals (seminars)
• projects (more later)
• How the profession is run
• project level
• getting work, responding to RFPs
• project evaluation management
• conflict resolution mediation, arbitration

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Themes-2

• company level
• profile of a company
• Chase-an-engineer exercise
• professional ethics
• staff presentation, team exercises
• Personal professional skills
• written and oral communication
• staff presentations
• practice with critique
• self-advocacy, negotiation
• staff presentations, workshops

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Themes-3

• job searching
• resume writing, interview workshop,
• networking, job fairs/campus
• interviews
• Professional Registration (more later)
• team building/participation
• group exercises
• library skills

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Professional Registration-1

• Why?
• Required to sign engineering drawings, do
• certain types of consulting, provide expert
  
• testimony
• Helpful for promotion
• Procedures
• Graduate from accredited
• undergrad program

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Professional Registration-2

• Pass 8 hr FE exam
• 4 years of increasingly responsible practice
• grad school counts 1
• Submit application
• 6 letters of recommendation
• Document experience (no more than 1
• pound of paper)
• Pass 8 hr PE exam

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Professional Registration-3

• FE Exam (Registration) Dates
• Saturday, October 25, 2003 (Sept 1)
• Saturday, April 17, 2004 (March 1)
• Registration Info www.pcshq.com
• More info
• www.state.ma.us/reg/boards/

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• Group Projects
• Conducted separately by track
• Environmental
• HPS/Geo
• IT
• Some mix and match

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• Group Projects-Logistics
• Projects introduced/discussed 9/5 and 9/12
• Projects selected by 9/19
• Draft proposals due early November
• Final proposals due early December
• Project work continues during IAP
• Final projects due early April
• Individual theses culled from group project
• (usually)
• Project web sites maintained throughout

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• First Assignment
• Write your resume
• Due
• draft by this Friday at noon (for peer
• review)
• on file by Sept 15
• updated as you go

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• First Seminar
• Title The MIT Career Services Office
• Speaker D. Rosencrans
• Friday, Sept 5 at noon
• Bring
• 3 copies of resume
• substantive job description from
• newspaper or web for a company youd like
  to
• interview with
• highlighter (one per person)