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School of Mechanical Engineering
Global Engineering Professional Seminar
1. Intro: Seminar Policies, Text, and Assignments2. Discuss: Resume Drafts, resume “hand-out” today3. Complete: Required “Writing Sample”4. Next week: Turn in revised resumes with an attached review! Note SA FAIR on Wednesday!
ME 290 Week 2: August 29, 2013
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›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/
Remember! Seminar Contacts
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›Fareed Zakaria’s
›Post-American
›World, Release 2.0
›Available in PB, in bookstores and on Amazon.com
Textbook
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› 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-- Week 11
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Course Schedule
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›12 Thursday Seminars needed to earn course credit
›Class participation and professional decorum encouraged—professionals have good questions!
Course Policies
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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
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› Text/ 3 quizzes (30%)
› Global Profile and Reviewed Resume—Global Profile also posted on NSF GlobalHUB (15%)
› Professional activities (10%)
› Attendance (45%)
Course Grades
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ME 290 Seminar Objectives1. 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—develop skills for working across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
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 and as a
person for a specific opportunity!
›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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› 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.
ME 290 Resumes
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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 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!