Career Goals

Describe your academic and career goals in the broad field of engineering (including computer science, industrial distribution, and engineering technology). What and/or who has influenced you either inside or outside the classroom that contributed to these goals?

My academic goals are becoming an expert on both computer science and business. Similarly, in terms of my career goals, I would like to be a successful entrepreneur by basing my company off of the technological product I designed. I believe learning computer science is important because of its usefulness to society. For example, in the future, our society will most likely be technology based with more technological innovations being made every year. However, all of those revolutionary innovations such as the new Macbook Air need advanced computer science skills in order to successfully function as a high tech computer. In addition, computer science can also be used in other fields of daily life such as digital protection. In terms of digital protection, without computer scientists, private information such as credit card numbers would be easily
For example, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, combined his programming skills with a business mindset to become one of the most successful programmers in the world.If Zuckerberg was just a regular computer programmer, he would be nowhere as affluent as he is today. However, because he uses his business intellect to promote Facebook globally, this allows Facebook to become an international monopoly. In all, these are a couple of reasons why I idolize Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg effectively combines his business skills to promote a revolutionary social media site with his computer skills. In addition, Zuckerberg displays that new ideas lead to enormous advancements in society like Facebook did. For those reasons, Zuckerberg has inspired me to be an expert on both business and computer