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A Winning knead for Launching Your Engineering Carg whizr by Dean C. Millard Course Topics include the Cargoner Planning serve and Task/Project Planning Understand Yourself Career Development and Choice Theories Interest and/or (Holland) disposition Assessments Understanding your personal values, skills, interests, and traits and their impact on career possibilitiesValues and ethics relating to career choices Your strengths and promoting your strengths ( entrust be hired for face lifting speech) Explore Options Researching and Exploring Engineering Careers and Employment Options Use of career libraries and other resources for occupational and major choices Databases and other on-line(a) resources Decision making about your career Informational and behavioral interviewing Interacting with Engineering Professional(s)/Faculty at Careers Discussion recall Action Marketing Yourself How can you make yourself stand out? Resume and cover letter inclination twittering skills Networkin g Internships Systems Engineering Understand the systems/team approach to modern engineering design What skills and experiences during your undergraduate career impart prepare you best for the reality of todays workforce and its expectations? The role of graduate studies and how to assess the need, and undergraduate chassis excerption implications. Leadership skill development and experiential learning opportunities. Entrepreneurship may be a goal. What strategies should you follow? The wideness of excellent communication skills.Team functioning guidelines The turn tail consists of mandatory lectures together with homework and class exercises that will stomach you to tailor the material presented in class to make appropriate career choices and enhance your career development. Topics will be presented in a summary fashion during lectures and will be investigated in more full point through outside assignments and subsequent in- class presentations and discussion. Some readings may be at profession websites. The course blackboard website will be the primary method of distributing information, assignments, and class documents.One other note about the arouser website Please be sure you are registered with your name exactly as you are registered in this course. And only when use your official Cornell email as the email address when you sign in and log in apiece season. Also, send ALL emails only from your official Cornell gamma account, others will not be opened, including if they are a nickname or an alias. Please be sure to keep electronic (backup) copies of ALL the documents you tour in to this course until after you receive your final grade.If anything is lost along the way, you can then well locate, and resubmit any missing comments for credit. You will also find your assessment results you AC aired in the course may be useful to you later in your career. Please keep these materials for your personal use once you finish our course Course Grading On -time class attendance, participation in in-class discussions, and satisfactory, on-time completion of course assignments will determine your final grade in this seminar course. This seminar only helps you make good career plans if you are a serious, motivated, and active participant. Opts. Will be earned for every lecture attended on time and only if attending or the entire class period. 10 Opts. Will be earned for each homework satisfactorily perfect, typed, and submitted on time in class. A 40% penalty will be assessed for all late materials dour in after they are due in class, up to one calendar workweek late or for turning in an unsatisfactory submission which must be redone. O Opts. Credit will be earned for homework turned in more than one week after the due date although all assignments still must be completed satisfactorily and turned in to pass the course.Several homework assignments may be given higher weighting particularly he final project and these will be announ ced in class and on the assignment rag week posted on Blackboard. In addition, some assignments will be group- oriented. Absences from lecture will only be excused for official university reasons and for communicable diseases such as the flu when you should remain at home and orchestrate care of yourself. The official university reasons are illness and absence from campus on official university business, the later must be documented in writing.Proof of any missing work must be submitted prior to the final scrutiny date, ND be of acceptable quality. Remember, any assignment turned in more than 1 week late will receive zero credit towards your grade, but the assignment must still be submitted in satisfactory form to complete the course. Final Letter Grading will be found on the percentage score out of the total possible as follows AAA 100 % 89. 9 % ICC 79. 9% D 60-69. 9% Below 60 % OR if missing or unsatisfactorily completed any required assignments 1. Tuesday, January 27th In c lass Introduction/overview of course and course materials (Ready for Takeoff)