As an important part of IE 250 course, we are assigned to join one-to-one mentoring program with a 350 student to be mentor/ mentee pairs; I am lucky to have Wilson Cochrane as my mentor this semester, and he truly told me lots of interesting facts of Industrial Engineering that I never have thought before. We probably would be the most different and challenging pairs than others, since we are from different cultures and backgrounds, but similarly, we both have chosen transfer from Civil to Industrial after freshman year, and I guess this also helped us to know each other. After a series of email and message communicating, we finally have set our first face-to-face meeting on Sep 21, Wednesday in Hodges Library. Basically we had discussed …show more content…
the curriculum and the faculty of ISE program, and we also talked more details about intern opportunities and study abroad session. As a sophomore Industrial Engineering student, I have not taken many ISE courses yet, and just have a basic understanding of the curriculum honestly.
My mentor Wilson, however, told me more facts about the IE courses he had taken. For example, he mentioned about IE 401: Facilities Plan, that he felt really hard on it, especially when learn something new, there might be a quiz later on in the lab, and even do not have enough time to review. What is more, we continued to talk about the faculty that we have met, and exchanged some tips for academic advisory as well. Although both of us have not intern experience yet, we still spend some time on it since I mentioned that I would start my internship next summer in Nissan China. Wilson also advised me to start seeking for other intern opportunities in US, and this may help me a bunch in my future career in ISE. The last but not the least, we talked about study abroad session that lead by ISE department, and there are usually two programs happening year by year in China and Germany. I am pretty interested in the program in Hamburg, Germany; not only the covered study materials, reliability cases and business excellence, but also I want to have more unforgettable college experience. My mentor Wilson also encouraged me to enjoy the study abroad experience as well, and I believe that I would spent a great time when the days …show more content…
come. More importantly, we went to attend an IISE meeting on October 19.
We had really great experience with the guest speaker Joel Smith from USPS, he talked a lot about their industry, and this truly helped me know more about Postal Service industry. Before Mr. Joel Smith presents, when I think of postal service, I always would go directly to the post truck that we can see every day; but after his show, I realized how advanced they have become and how important that industrial engineers are. What surprised me the most about his presentation is the videos that he shows about USPS Operations Industrial Engineers. In this video, I have chance to see how the mails have been transmitted and how other industrial engineers talk about their jobs. They were not just helping people to finish the tasks, and they helped change the ways that mails system work, which might be the most successful part of the OIE work. From Joel’s presentation and his working attitude, I know how a responsible and personable industrial engineers would be. Furthermore, I learned too many experiences from the presentation; be passion about we do, love what we do and be excited about we do, and most importantly, do not afraid of any challenges we may
face. It is a really necessary and wonderful experience that I have the honor to take part in mentoring program and learn from other experienced peer students. Even if when I jump into professional career someday, I think it still would be important to have a mentor or teacher that I could study and follow. I strongly agree that how necessary that the mentors would be, and if I have the chance to seek for my working mentor, I would look for a person who is experienced and willing to share and teach. I believe that I would have a great starting in my future professional career if I am under the guide of a successful mentor. I would greatly appreciate my mentor Wilson Cochrane’s help and share for the whole semester, I truly learned a lot, which I would enjoy through my all ISE career. I am also really looking forward to be an honor mentor in next Fall semester, and hope that I would have more personal successful experience to share with my mentee.
In a nutshell, I would say the novel provides a good understanding which closely relates to the course. This novel illustrated the process of ongoing improvement inside a manufacturing plant. Last but not the least, the author taught us how to think before solving a problem as well as how to apply the approach to solve a problem.
Furthermore, this was kind of funny, because as a kid I was amazed at how Amazon ships customers’ packages in the fastest and the most cost-effective way. As a kid, I remember asking my parents “How does Amazon do this?” and I remember them saying that I will need to major in a topic that will help me understand this process. Every time I ordered an item from them, I would think about the process of obtaining the packages using robots, packing the items safely, and then shipping them off to customers. This is an example of logistics and efficiency at its finest. As a junior, I still do not understand this process fully, since I am currently taking IDIS 240. But, by the time I graduate, I hope to fully understand this process.
I enjoyed reading your post this week. It is a good choice to analyze and evaluate USPS. At first, I love this federal service. They work properly. The USPS has technologically improved itself year by year that its history speaks itself that is “In the more than two centuries since Benjamin Franklin was appointed our first Postmaster General in 1775, the Postal Service™ has grown and changed with America, boldly embracing new technologies to better serve a growing population” (USPS, About). Through the years, USPS tried to serve well enough with some competition with some other private postal services in the US, and so USPS picked some days as significant to compete in this rivalry field.
An engineer is someone who understands the world as it is, but works to make it better. They solve problems on both micro and macro scales and all sizes in between. While they endeavor to solve problems in such a way that the future isn’t compromised, this may not always be the case, thus providing employment for engineers in the future in order to solve the created problems. In this way, engineers display their obvious superior intelligence by ensuring employment for the future. At the end of the day, engineers are the on...
During my interview, I spoke with Keven Carpenter, founder of Porticos. Porticos is a mechanical engineering firm which specializes in product development. From attending this interview, I learned that mechanical engineering can be both rewarding and devastating. For example, most of the time, mechanical engineers in product development do not get patents and projects are often discarded. However, there are instances where a project became implemented in everyday technology and becomes patented. According to Kevin, this is an overwhelming rewarding experience, that many engineers and unable to participate
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Secondary research was conducted through search engines, books, and a personal interview. A questionnaire was given out to a currently employed Electrical Engineer that holds a degree. It included questions about his daily life, the skills he uses, problems he faces, steps he takes to solve them and how he sees the future change for the field of electrical engineering.
In ancient times if you wanted to send somebody a message you had to either deliver it on your own or hire a messenger to deliver it for you. As technology advanced messengers were replaced by mail couriers, that would daily deliver letters and packages all over the world, but this could still take days or even weeks. When the phone was invented courier jobs decreased and jobs at phone companies replaced them. After the invention of the internet and e-mail, people were able to instantly transfer any kind of digital media, be it text, images or video. This advancement allowed scienti...
Jim Collins expressed ideas people might overlook in business and in their careers as well. He really opened up my eyes on how to approach the rest of my education and taking this to transition into full-time employment. Many lessons can be taken from this book, but it’s important to understand, while good might be good, it’s not great. Don’t just rely on good, there are always more you can do to be great, produce great results and be a part of a great company. So as mentioned before are you a hedgehog or fox? Do you want to be great or are you satisfied with good? Look in your three circles, avoid the doom loop and keep your flywheel spinning, after all of that you can become the energy industry’s next great leader.
I can relate this outcome of the course to my work experience. I can think of a recent personal experience of me with an offshore resource working from India. Since me being onsite and have more insight into the project was presenting a project proposal to the team members including this guy that was working from India. The presentation concluded and the very next day I talked to him about the project. He did have a good understanding of the project and was technically capable of the completing the project. But, what I noticed was that he was not able to communicate clearly. It was important for us to know about the status of the project. The project was going well but I have that this guy was not providing us with any status of the work he has been completing. After I took this class I have learnt that it was important for me to have him present the proposal from next time onwards which might help him increase his communication skills thus benefiting the
The postal service has lived to be a dependable, trusted communications supplier for over two centuries. This is a vital and essential service provided to the American citizens by the government. It assists Americans maintain touch. We are living in demanding times, long-standing technological and profitable trends, are critically reshaping nationwide and global services such as collection, shipment and delivery of postal goods. The postal service operates as a government department whose duty is collective service to every citizen. The postal corporation is working towards keeping this fundamental countrywide asset well-built and vibrant. In this regard postal service has launched a transformation plan, the steps that have got to be undertaken now and in the long-term. This is to be done in order to remain feasible, to thrive and to accomplish the collective service duty.
With Penn’s encouragement of an interdisciplinary education and its flexible curriculum, I would be able to study both the fundamentals of engineering and its potential consequences. As a member of Project Green—an environmental awareness club at my high school—I am specifically concerned by the effect of technology on the environment. Therefore, along with a major in mechanical engineering, I wish to minor in energy and sustainability. After taking the respective classes for this minor and having an in-depth grasp of the environmental issues spawned from technological interference, I would aim to research potential solutions under the guidance of a mentor. Through Penn’s Engineering Faculty Expertise Directory, I found a professor who may fit this role: Professor Lior, who researches—among various other subjects—sustainability. I hope that he may be the mentor for my aspirations one day and that I will have the opportunity to collaborate in research with
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We have reached a point in time where the antediluvian ways have either been completely forgotten or are simply ignored for loss of necessity. This fast progressing world owes everything to the researchers and innovators responsible for the ever changing paradigm of technology. My capability as an engineer, however, to be truly able to understand how the various design aspects behind each innovation, helping me ponder over the numerous ways in which it can be implemented for technological betterment is what makes me stand apart. Right from my childhood, I have been fascinated by bicycles, motorcycles, cars, mechanical structures and basically anything that had virile relations; this was mainly because of the automobiles and other vehicles in movies that always used to drum in a sense of amazement that used to reverberate in my memories long after. It was only a matter of time before I came to realize the sheer brilliance behind every design, the immense perfection engineers strive to achieve and the amount of hard work and dedication required to impeccable levels in the whole process. I wanted to be a part of it and it was then that I decided what was worth doing with my life. I chose Mechanical Engineering as my major in my Undergraduate study and frankly, the field never ceases to amaze me.
Obstacles had never been obstructing my effort to succeed in life. As an engineer to be, it is important to me to be prepared for the hurdles in the real world. The world nowadays needs a person who could compete and has great abilities to stand on the same level as others. Multiple skills and critical opinion of an issue are essential for an engineer to jump into this challenging career. For me, a strategic planning and full preparation need to achieve the aim of being an expert engineer.