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Career and Professional Guidance

Dr.-Ing. J. Mossbrucker Dr. R. Strangeway WI 2010-11. Career and Professional Guidance. GE300 – Purpose. Provides Perspectives On: Different Engineering Disciplines and Functions Professional Issues and Career Planning Does the Following:

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Career and Professional Guidance

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  1. Dr.-Ing. J. Mossbrucker Dr. R. Strangeway WI 2010-11 Career and Professional Guidance

  2. 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

  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 jobobtain the career 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

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

  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. 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? Your Future and the Rules of Life

  9. Welcome to GE-300 ! Career and Professional Guidance

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