World Class Engineer Research Paper

Becoming a world class engineer starts long before joining the workforce; it begins the moment you begin your first day of college classes your freshman year. To become a world class engineer requires you to have a positive attitude, set goals, participate in your community, and excel in your academic development and personal development. Many students, including myself, have not reached the standards in each area to become a world class engineer and need to focus on improving in each area. By improving my standards on each item, I will have developed a plan to success to becoming a world class engineer. To be a world class engineer you have to be successful at what you do and the key to success is to set short term and long term goals before

A world class engineer would ask ‘why they want to achieve this goal’ or what the payoff will be for meeting this goal’ (Landis pg. 14). I currently have answered both these questions and by doing so have strengthened my commitment to my goals. The reason I want to achieve my goals are to ensure I can be a world class engineer to the best of my abilities. The payoff of my goals is the salary of being an engineer and proving to myself that the struggle of gaining a chemical engineering degree was worth the effort I put into my studies to become the best engineer I could possibly be. A world class engineer would also learn as much as they can about engineering because an increase in knowledge is an increase in motivation (Landis pg. 15). World class engineers would involve themselves in a engineering based club, ask other engineers questions about their job, and do research on the websites given in chapter 2 of “Studying Engineering”. Currently I have not asked other engineers questions about their line of work or looked at the websites that are listed in the book by Raymond Landis. By actually learning what engineering is will be the next step in my process to becoming a world class engineer. The last step to strengthening my commitment to my goals is to create a road map for the classes I will be taking to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in the span of four years. A world class engineer would take the time to actively plan the classes they need to take to graduate and to successfully pass each class to reach a higher level of study (Landis pg. 15). I have currently planned which classes to take my next semester after I pass the classes I am currently taking. By passing Calculus I, I can pass Calculus II and any math class afterwards. By