(Individual) GE Area S Essay 1: Five-Year Career Plan (500 words minimum, graded by Area S graders)

Five-Year Career Plan: In order to build a success career and life, you have to have a plan. This paper is a reflection on your main career goals and how you plan to reach them. You should refer to the file “ENG 198A Lecture 1 – Who are you and where are you going” for this essay.

1. Why do you want to pursue a career in electrical engineering?

• When and how did you get interested?

• How your wish for becoming an engineer was shaped by cultural and societal influences?

1. Select a job/career that is right for you

• Describe three top values that are most important to you as you make career decision and pick one job and/or company that you would like to work in/for.

• Highlight one specific task for the job you picked that is interesting to you and why.

1. How do you plan to build relevant experience and keep learning?

• Identify one of your potential gap (where you need to develop) for the job that you picked and identify a specific way of addressing the gap (e.g. take a specific class, complete an internship, etc.)

• How do you keep up with the technology (learning strategies)?

(Individual) GE Area S Essay 2: Your Project’s Implication in Area S (500 words minimum, graded by Area S graders).

Your Project’s Implication in Area S

The projects that engineers work on are situated in a complex historical, social, political, and economic system that can contributes to diversity, equality, and structured inequalities in the U.S. How your project (or a technology that is relevant to your project, not presented in ENGR 195A) has a potential impact (or has impacted) diversity, equality, and/or structured inequalities in the United States. Your essay must cite your sources and include a reference section that follows the APA 6.0 or IEEE standard (minimum 500 words)

If your project does not have a clear connection to Area S issues (such as designing an electronics component), you can think about the question at a higher level . For example, if your project is about designing a faster transistor, you can talk about how the semiconductor industry, in general, contributes to diversity, equality, and structured inequalities in the U.S.

(Individual) GE Area S Essay 3: Lead-free (500 words minimum, graded by Area S graders).

Lead-free: Describe how the push for a lead-free standard in electronic products (RoHS) increased social justice in the U.S. (minimum 500 words)

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