Professional Guidance

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Professional Guidance

• Dr.-Ing. J. Mossbrucker
• Dr. R. Kelnhofer

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GE300 Purpose

• Provides Perspectives On
• Different Engineering Disciplines and Functions
• Professional Issues and Career Planning
• Does the Following
• Discuss/Vote on Sr. Electives/Sr. 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
• Interview skills
• Preparing for the senior year
• Electives, Senior Design, Senior Project
• Career financial planning
• 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?