Essay On Self Assessment

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Interview Report and Self-Assessment My interview with mechanical engineer Benjamin Rashford went as planned. I felt that I got plenty of experience that I wouldn’t have been able to gain without this interview. During the interview I made a great deal of observations. One of the thing I noticed was that as mechanical engineer, He wasn’t used to a one on one confrontation with someone. He was more used to performing in teams and not sitting in a room with one person. But he explained to me that these are very important in any career fields and would deem useful in my future. He thought that today youth believed that if you are a stem major then communication are not that important and tried to explain how communication has helped him become …show more content…

One of the things that Mr. Rashford emphasized on was team work. As a mechanical engineer, I would have to work in a team at least once during my career. He said that working in a team is not always easy there are disagreements and clash of idea but as an adult you have to put those things behind you and work to achieve our goal. Also as a mechanical engineer you have to present your idea and plans with detail to investors and financial providers. Those presentation sometime could even decide whether you have a job or not and getting those investors to invest in your project would greatly benefit me and the company I would be working in for the future. As a mechanical engineer I would have to be able to sell to my audience that I am able or my company is able to accomplish the task with the least amount of money and time. Money and time are the most important deciding factors for mechanical engineers. People are going to be looking for things that are cheap and could easily and quickly be mass produced and if we can’t express our idea with these traits we are not going to get and investments. So it would be very important to be able to communicate our ideas clearly and show that they would save money and

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