Professional Guidance

1. Professional Guidance Dr.-Ing. J. Mossbrucker Dr. O. Petersen

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Research Design Manufacturing Testing Product Development Components Systems Interfacing Technical Marketing Applications Examples of Job Functions

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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: AssignmentDue • 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

10. 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 instructor’s directions • A grade of “F” will be given for the course if there are: • Any missing assignments as of 12:00PM noon, Friday, Week 10 • Any missed lectures not made up per the instructor’s directions as of 12:00PM noon, Friday, Week 10 • Any unprofessional behavior based on the sole judgment of the instructors

11. 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