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Engineering Basics: Your Path to Success

Explore the fundamentals of engineering, career interests, professionalism, and ethics. Learn strategies for success, commitment, perseverance, and the importance of associations. Understand your rights, responsibilities, and ethical obligations in the engineering field.

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Engineering Basics: Your Path to Success

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  1. Fundamentals of Engineering EG31 and EG32A two semester courseFairfield University School of Engineering

  2. Fundamentals of Engineering • Career Path Interests • Professionalism • Engineering Skills • Design • Communications • Rights, Responsibilities and Ethics

  3. Studying Engineering • Commitment • Application • Strategy • Perseverance • Associations

  4. Commitment • Decide to be successful • Set appropriate goals • Stay focused • Be determined to succeed • Remember the reasons you chose engineering

  5. Application • Be willing to work • You are doing it for you, not for the professor • Reviewing material is better than relearning material

  6. Strategy • Be certain that you know the prerequisite material at the start of a course • Make the most of classroom time • Study the text and reference materials to supplement before the lectures • Ask questions • Don’t rely on cramming; Engineering is cumulative • Learn by doing, not reading about it

  7. Perseverance • Learn from your mistakes (and from the mistakes of others) • Success comes from not giving up • “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” - Friedrich Nietzsche • “Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” – Thomas Alva Edison

  8. Associations • Your fellow students are a resource • Spend time with GOOD students; not just COOL ones • Teaching material to others is a great way to solidify your understanding of that material

  9. Rights, Responsibilities, and Ethics • Responsibilities • Confidentiality: Don’t disclose proprietary information to others • Proprietary Information: • Usually marked • Non-disclosure agreements • Conflicts of Interest: Identify and make known • Environmental Ethics: Try to “do no harm”, understand the trade-offs • Computer Ethics • A tool: can be used to do wrong • A target: viruses, worms, trojans, spam, phising, pharming, … • Human control: Rely on automated control with care • Professional Rights • Your Professional Conscience • The Defense industry: a different world • “Whistle Blowing”: takes courage; protected by law (to some degree)

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