School of Mechanical Engineering

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: [email protected]

› Seminar Head TA: Kaitlyn Dalton › Course webpage:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM / Global Engineering Professional Seminar Fall 2013 2

Textbook

› Fareed Zakaria’s ›

Post-American

›

World, Release 2.0

› Available in PB, in bookstores and on Amazon.com

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Course Schedule

› Seminar meets

each week

—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--

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Course Policies

›

12

Thursday Seminars needed to earn course credit › Class participation and

professional decorum

encouraged

questions!

—

professionals have good

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Course Materials

All course materials, except the text, will be posted on our course webpage, https://engineering.purd

ue.edu/MECOM/ “Communications” drop down menu on ME HOME

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Course Grades

› Text/ 3 quizzes (30%) › Global Profile and Reviewed Resume

—Global Profile also posted on NSF GlobalHUB

(15%) › Professional activities (10%) › Attendance (45%)

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ME 290 Seminar Objectives

1.

Global Engineering Professional Issues

—encourage literacy about the global professional engineering community and about global issues .

2.

International opportunities –

provide information about opportunities in the Purdue BSME program and beyond.

3.

Global Communications

boundaries.

—develop skills for working across disciplinary and cultural

4.

Professional Ethics

—develop a foundation useful in making ethical decisions in the professional workplace.

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Professional Documents--Resume

› Resume —what is it?

– One page application for an

interview

– Presents an argument or a “

case

” – Introduces you as a

professional person

for a

specific

opportunity!

and as a › Resume —what is it not?

–

Not

history!

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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!

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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.

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Professional engineering — Look back to achievements…

› http://www.greatachievements.org/

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Professional engineering--Look forward to challenges…

› Examine the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges” › http://engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges .asp

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Your Semester Six?

› Engineering Term Abroad-CHINA!

› Unique among all Purdue Engineering › Open to all ME’s in good standing

SJTU Gate

› 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!

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