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Enhancing Education Through Activities

This chapter discusses the importance of broadening your education beyond coursework through co-curricular and extracurricular activities. It identifies examples of co-curricular activities such as participating in student organizations, engineering projects, pre-professional employment, and community service. Student organizations can provide social, leadership, and professional development benefits. Engineering projects, pre-professional employment like internships, and cooperative education programs allow students to apply their skills and strengthen their career motivation and qualifications. The chapter emphasizes the value of networking, informational interviews, and putting effort into identifying and applying for extra educational opportunities.

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Enhancing Education Through Activities

This chapter discusses the importance of broadening your education beyond coursework through co-curricular and extracurricular activities. It identifies examples of co-curricular activities such as participating in student organizations, engineering projects, pre-professional employment, and community service. Student organizations can provide social, leadership, and professional development benefits. Engineering projects, pre-professional employment like internships, and cooperative education programs allow students to apply their skills and strengthen their career motivation and qualifications. The chapter emphasizes the value of networking, informational interviews, and putting effort into identifying and applying for extra educational opportunities.

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Chapter 7

Broadening Your Education

Broadening Your Education

Co-curricular/Extra curricular Activities


No one will make you do these. You will have to step up to the plate. May have greater educational value than even your required coursework.

Examples of Co-curricular Activities

Participation in student organizations

Participation in engineering projects


Pre-professional employment

Putting something back (service)

Types of Engineering Student Organizations


Student chapters of discipline-specific engineering societies Engineering honor societies Ethnic and gender-based student organizations Engineering student council

Benefits of Participation in Student Organizations


Meet your social needs Develop your leadership and organizational skills Engage in professional development activities Receive academic support Participate in service activities

Participation in Engineering Projects


Student design competitions

Technical paper contest


Design clinics Undergraduate research

Pre-Professional Employment

Summer

jobs jobs education (co-op)

Part-time

Cooperative

experiences

Benefits of Pre-professional Employment


Develop job search skills Gain exposure to engineering practice Make money Apply your knowledge, skills, and abilities Strengthen motivation to succeed in engineering study Gain references for future employment

Cooperative Education

a program of study at an institution of higher education under which regular students undertake academic study for specified periods of time alternating with work experience in government, industry, business . . .

How Do You Measure Up?

Your year in school Your academic performance Your personal qualifications

Conducting a Job Search

Preparing a resume

Preparing a cover letter


Developing your interviewing skills

Identifying employment opportunities

Identifying Employment Opportunities

Networking/Informational Interviews

On-campus interviews
Using the Internet

Other sources?

Informational Interviews

What is it? An information gathering session. Not a job interview. You are interviewing the employer. How do you arrange an informational interview? Preparing for the informational interview Conducting the interview Following up on the interview

Putting Something Back

Providing Serving Helping

feedback

as an ambassador other students

Group Discussion Student Power


Power (the ability to influence others) comes from at least three sources: 1) position; 2) knowledge; and 3) person. In your group, discuss the power that comes to you from your position as a student Appoint a leader to keep the discussion on topic and a recorder to document what was learned and report out

Alternate Group Discussion Topic Interviewing for Summer Job


In your group, develop a list (5-10) of questions you would expect to be asked during an interview for an engineeringrelated summer job.
Appoint a leader to keep the discussion on topic and a recorder to document what was learned and report out.

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