Prompt Post #3
The
professional that I interviewed was Kyle Foster, a mechanical engineer who now
teaches engineering courses like the one I am taking this semester which is
EGR.
Mr. Foster explained that the misconceptions of
engineering is male domination. He explained that the reason why there is such
a great issue with this is because so many women leave their jobs due to
various reasons. Either they cannot balance their professional and personal
lives. Another misconception is about mechanical engineers like himself. People
think that all they do is simply design cars. This only applies to a handful of
mechanical engineers but engineers like himself have worked with oil/gas
companies other than design cars or build them. Other important misconceptions
that he mentioned was that many people believe that engineers sit all day on a
computer, that they lack communication skills, and that they love mathematics
and sciences. He mentioned that these misconceptions are not true because
engineers don’t spend their days in a desk because they must be building things
or design projects or whatever it is that engineers do. Himself like many other
engineers have good communication skills because they have to work as teams to
accomplish a project. Engineers do not work by themselves because they need the
opinion of others.
Since engineers work in teams they usually communicate
verbally. Other ways that they communicate in are through emails or phone
calls. These are the primary ways in which they communicate.
One of the things that I learned and did not know was
that engineers must work in teams. I have read and heard from millions of
people that engineers don’t have good communication skills but indeed they do.
They mostly communicate through email and in person. I had no idea that they
had to work in teams to either design projects or design but they do because
they can’t do everything by themselves and they need the help of other fellow
engineers.
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