Some Useful Information

While I was researchingon enngineering, I found a lot of interesting information that I thought would be helpful. When people are thinking of becoming an engineer they may want to ask some general questions and this information will answer most of these questions. I found that the top Engineering Schools in the nation are University of Maryland, Norwich University, Iowa State University, Columbia University, Polytechnic University, University of Colorado, and the University of Southern California. I also came across the starting wages of an engineer which can be a commonly asked question. When you are finished with college, your staring salary will range with the type of field you are in. They may range anywhere from $55,000 to $79,000. As the years go by in your career and you get more experience under your belt, you can make anywhere from the mid $150,000 all the way to the mid $350,000, again depending on your field. As for schooling, the minimum education level you need to have is your bachelors’ degree. It is also highly recommended for graduate students to get there masters degree, followed by their doctorate degree.

Way to success

I found from my research that engineers and scientists solve problems and questions in a very similar way. Scientists use the scintific method and engineers follow it to a certain point. Ask a question and see if a hypothesis works. However engineers don't have the luxury of getting something wrong like a scientist does. If a building must be built and there are certain problems, simulations must be done as opposed to actual tests. It is a very intensive job and can be very taxing, however once a job is successfully complete, there really isn't a more gratifying feeling than something like building a safe bridge for people to cross. Peoples live are indirectly in your hands in this field. So don't mess up, please.

The Possibilities with Engineering

When thinking about graduating with a master in engineering, your opportunities are almost endless. There are a number of different fields that many universities offer that can open up many doors for your future. For example, if you graduate as a civil engineer major, you can also look into structural engineering, transportation engineering, and materials engineering. As a new engineer, you may be testing and devolving new products such as designing a new robot or creating a new software system. There are 17 different engineering specialties covered in the Federal Government’s Standard Occupational Classification system (SOC). These consist of Aerospace, Biomedical, Civil, Electronics, Mechanical, and many more. When thinking about choosing a specific field, you should pursue what you like and that you can relate to. If someone like the ocean and being by the sea, they may want to enter the Marine Engineering field. Again, engineering can open a lot of doors for you. The possibilities are almost endless, and you are sure to find a field that has something to do with you.

A summary of the citation style used in your field

When I did some research on what type citation styles are used in the engineering field, I found that engineers use the IEEE style the most often. The IEEE stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. This institute was formed in 1963, and later formed a citation style for engineers that is the most widely used citation style today. There are also other styles that can be used in different branches of engineering. For example, if someone was in the civil engineer field, they may use an ASCE style which is the Society of Civil engineers. Other citation styles that may be used are ACS or the APA styles. These two styles deal with the science fields but are commonly used for engineering.

Resources on Writing Guidelines for Engineering Students

In further research I conducted, I found a very precise website that gave information about the writing process for an engineer student when that student has to present their results. At http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/ , it has a basic layout and an organized plan for how the student should organize their findings. From how to assess the audience you are presenting to, to memos, proposals, and the design of powerpoint slides. This website is a great resource for students in preparing a presentation for the engineering field.

Civil Engineers

I am very fond of the engineering field especially dealing with the civil specifics. My father and grandfather are both engineers, so you might say I'm a bit bias on this subject. Even though I may be onesided, you can look at the overall job descriptions and see the dominance the entire engineering field that a civil engineer holds over the rest. They deal with structures big and small in nature or in big cities, their jobs take place everywhere even in outerspace. There are more specific job titles for other portions of engineering, but Civil engineers are bascially the lion of the pack. Dealing with such immense projects and so much money they are required and are given the use of high-tech state of the art machinery. Building such things as ecological dams, towering skyscrapers, and lenghty bridges, they need such equipment. They are the masters of the forefront of technology. I am proud to say my father is a Civil Engineer.

Substantial Grading

Instead of interviewing a professor on certain engineering requirments during college I interviewed my father who gave a good amount of information to help me out. I asked him if he remembered any big projects or paper he had to do for a professor of his and he knew exaclty which one he remembered. He said he had to spend half a summer working on a design project. Physically going out onto a field and measuring out certain areas and testing certain places to figure out the layout of his blueprint and how he would attack this project. He was paired with 5 other students and they worked together to find the best outcomes. The major portion his professor told him to work on was the "slabs", so it could properly hold weights of those walking around inside the future warehouse. My dad said his favorite portion of the project was doing the survey on the property, main and basic layout's. At the end of the 6 weeks, him and his group along with 5 other groups had to present their finding and blueprints to the class. The presentation was constructed with displaying blueprints and verbal finding. He said it was a great learning experience.

Discussion about scholarly work on writing or argument in your field

Through research I have found out the basics of writing in the engineering profession. We accept the idea that our knowledge is shaped by our language. But this view of language and writing is not necessarily accepted in other parts of our study. Engineering defines itself as a field concerned with the production of useful objects. In keeping with this concern, engineers tend not only to see their own knowledge as coming directly from physical reality without text, but also to devalue the texts engineers produce, seeing them as simple write-ups of information found elsewhere. Several of our most significant studies of engineers’ writing, examine the way writing is used to transmit engineering knowledge rather than to generate it. Certain engineering textbooks often present writing solely as a means to report on what the engineer already knows, and the findings of their project. A text written by Mathes and Stevenson called Designing Technical Reports prepares the engineer to shift out of a technical mode and into a report writing mode when getting ready to write. Writing is viewed as part of an engineer’s job but not as part of engineering.

Interview with roomate

I have gotten a chance to look into this field through a students perspective by talking to my roommate. Through talking with my roommate about the papers that he writes in his engineering field, I have learned a lot about what they do in their engineering field. Through his first 2 years of being at FGCU he has not really had to write too many academic based papers. Most of the papers in his field are mathematical equations that they explain in great detail. The are given a problem and they take the necessary steps they have learned in class to explain how the problem is solved through using their mathematical equations. There are really no papers that have been assigned to him yet in his major. All that he has gotten a look into is mathematical equations that have to be explain in great detail.

Interview with area’s reference librarian

When I met with the librarian I also talked to her about the major sources and research guide in engineering. She explained to me that there were many of them out there but FGCU subscribes to a couple big named ones. She led me through our FGCU website to show me how to get to the reference sources. We went to (FGCU ENGINEERING WEBSITE) and then from there you could click on the tabs on the top of the page that say,
* Bioengineering
* Civil Engineering
* Environmental Engineering

From each one of these tabs it gave you databases that you would use for each major. For example, she explained to me that if I clicked on Bioengineering and then scrolled until I saw the database named "BIOSCIENCEnetBASE (E-books)" that this was one of the most frequently used databases for a bioengineering major. For the Civil Engineering tab, the main database was "ENGnetBASE", and lastly for the environmental engineering tab, the main database was "ENVIROnetBASE". She explained to me that each one of the databases with "BASE" in them, were online books (eBooks). These are the most popular because it’s a book forum on the internet.

Interview with area’s reference librarian

Today I went and talked to the librarian, Danielle Rosenthal, who is in charge of the engineering section. Throughout asking her questions, she was still not exact on the criteria that engineer majors use because most of the decision is up to the professor. She told me that most of the papers that are written in this major are written in APA style, but as I mentioned before the decision is always up to the professor. There forth, if the professor wanted the students to write the paper in MLA format, then the student would have to do what was asked of them.