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
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
MEng Concepts Subject Intro-3
• Attendance
• Intramurals
– Parsons Lab team welcomes all
• Syllabus; Goals for subject
• Relationship among Concepts subj;
project; thesis
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
Themes-2
– company level
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•
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
Themes-3
– job searching
• resume writing, interview workshop,
networking, job fairs/campus
interviews
– Professional Registration (more later)
– team building/participation
• group exercises
– library skills
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
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
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/
Group Projects
• Conducted separately by track
– Environmental
–HPS/Geo
–IT
– Some mix and match
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
First Assignment
• Write your resume
• Due
– draft by this Friday at noon (for peer
review)
– on file by Sept 15
– updated as you go
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)*