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MEng Concepts Subject Intro-1

This subject introduces the schedule, seminar, and project meeting details for MEng Concepts. It covers various topics such as HPS, GEO, IT, ENV, registration, advising, and classes.

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MEng Concepts Subject Intro-1

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  1. MEng Concepts Subject Intro-1 • Instructors • – Eric Adams • – Chu Eu Ho • Schedule • – Monday and Wed; 8:45-9:45* • – Friday seminars (w/lunch); 12-1 • – Friday project mtgs (at least initially): • HPS, GEO, IT: 1-3 • ENV: 3-5

  2. MEng Concepts Subject Intro-2 • 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

  3. MEng Concepts Subject Intro-3 • Attendance • Intramurals • – Parsons Lab team welcomes all • Syllabus; Goals for subject • Relationship among Concepts subj; • project; thesis

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Themes-3 • – job searching • resume writing, interview workshop, • networking, job fairs/campus • interviews • – Professional Registration (more later) • – team building/participation • group exercises • – library skills

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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/

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

  11. 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

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

  13. 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 you’d like to • interview with • – highlighter (one per person)*

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