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Global Engineering Professional Seminar. ME 290 Week 2: August 29, 2013. 1. Intro: Seminar Policies, Text, and Assignments 2. Discuss: Resume Drafts, resume “hand-out” today 3. Complete: Required “Writing Sample”
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Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290 Week 2: August 29, 2013 1. Intro: Seminar Policies, Text, and Assignments 2. Discuss: Resume Drafts, resume “hand-out” today 3. Complete: Required “Writing Sample” 4. Next week: Turn in revised resumes with an attached review! Note SA FAIR on Wednesday!
Remember! Seminar Contacts • Dianne Atkinson, Ph.D. • Office: ME 3003B, enter via ME 3003, Main Bldg. • Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri. Email: dla@purdue.edu • Seminar Head TA: Kaitlyn Dalton • Course webpage: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM/
Textbook • FareedZakaria’s • Post-American • World, Release 2.0 • Available in PB, in bookstores and on Amazon.com
Course Schedule • Seminar meets eachweek—sign in! • Begin reading Zakaria text “on your own,” note three quizzes in class! –Weeks 4, 7, and 10. • Complete a professional resume—Week 3 • Complete a global profile-- Week 11
Course Policies • 12 Thursday Seminars needed to earn course credit • Class participation and professional decorum encouraged—professionals have good questions!
Course Materials All course materials, except the text, will be posted on our course webpage, https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM/ “Communications” drop down menu on ME HOME
Course Grades • Text/ 3 quizzes (30%) • Global Profile and Reviewed Resume—Global Profile also posted on NSF GlobalHUB(15%) • Professional activities (10%) • Attendance (45%)
ME 290 Seminar Objectives • Global Engineering Professional Issues—encourage literacy about the global professional engineering community and about global issues. • International opportunities–provide information about opportunities in the Purdue BSME program and beyond. • Global Communications—develop skills for working across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. • Professional Ethics—develop a foundation useful in making ethical decisions in the professional workplace.
Professional Documents--Resume • Resume—what is it? • One page application for an interview • Presents an argument or a “case” • Introduces you as a professional and as a person for a specific opportunity! • Resume—what is it not? • Not history!
Resume conventions • 1. Formal—like a business card: lists, not sentences; correct, concise. • 2. Hierarchical—most important first; most space used for most important • 3. Informative—provides contact information, credentials, selected experiences • 4. Complete—uses all available space!
ME 290 Resumes • Bring revised resumes with a (stapled) signed review to class next week, and place in brown folders (Week 3)! • Receive “Go!” (green stamp) or “No Go!” (red stamp) (Week 4) • Industrial Roundtable September 17 and 18, Purdue Memorial Mall (Week 5) • Revised resumes (with reviews) are 1/3 of the final “Professional Profile” package that is completed in Week 11.
Professional engineering—Look back to achievements… • http://www.greatachievements.org/
Professional engineering--Look forward to challenges… • Examine the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges” • http://engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.asp
Your Semester Six? • Engineering Term Abroad-CHINA! • Unique among all Purdue Engineering SJTU Gate • Open to all ME’s in good standing • Offers Semester 6 coursework • Class-size group, flying to Shanghai in January, starting classes same time as Purdue —in China! Seventh year for this program! • Costs same as West Lafayette (includes air-fare), all classes count (credit transfers), no delay in graduation, go with 40 friends!
