Engineering Innovations...

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Engineering Innovations...
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Outline

• A little bit about me!
• My experiences as an Engineering student
• my deciding factors during high school
• deciding on a discipline
• my 1st year experience
• summer jobs
• Extra curricular

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Deborah Messina

• Im a 4th year Computer Engineering student at
  McMaster University

What is the difference between Engineering and
Science?
What is Computer Engineering?
What are some other types of Engineering?
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Im the Chair of the IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Student
Branch at McMaster University

• Im on an advisory committee for Women in
  Engineering

• Im a student member of the PEO
  Professional Engineers of Ontario

and I manage to make time for sports, going out
with friends, and relaxing!
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Why Engineering?
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Engineering Disciplines
Electrical Computer Civil Chemical Material
Mechanical Manufacturing Physics/ Engineering Science Software Bio-medical
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Life as a 1st year

• Independent on your own
• Group work
• All engineering students stick together and help
  each other pass
• BALANCE work and play!
• Overwhelming
• Academic clubs and sports clubs to join
• High responsibility
• Attending lectures
• Meeting deadlines

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Summer Jobs

• After 1st year
• Head Instructor of an Engineering and Science
  Camp (ESQ) in Waterloo
• After 2nd year
• Database programmer for BuyBuddy.com
• After 3rd year
• Network Consultant at Bell Nexxia
• After 4th year
• Exchange to France

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Extra Curricular

• Engineering Society
• IEEE
• Concrete Toboggan
• Solar Car
• Formula SAE
• Each discipline has its own club
• And much more.

High performance vehicle designed, built and
tested entirely by undergraduate engineering
students. Sponsored by the Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE), the Formula SAE competition
attracts more than a thousand students from as
many as 100 colleges and universities throughout
North America and Great Britain.
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Questions?
My email chair_at_ieeesb.mcmaster.ca
For a personal online test to see if you should
be an engineer, go to http//www.eng.mcmaster.ca/
fireball/ Click on Personal Online Profile and
fill out the questionnaire.