Engineering Culture
Engineering Culture
The People
Within the UMass Amherst Amherst College of Engineering it will be very evident while sitting in class or walking through campus that you will have a wide variety of ethnicities around you. You can be sitting in chemistry class and have someone from China sitting next to you and then have someone from Africa sitting on the other side of you. People from all different countries and cultures come to colleges to succeed in life. Most people who are in your Higher level Engineering classes and haven’t been weeded out by the introduction classes will all have the same set of interests. The first being that just about everyone who is in the engineering college are not big fans of reading and writing and they love math and science which is why they would rather sit and do a thousand math problems over writing a paper. Secondly just about everyone who is going to succeed in the engineering program is extremely creative. When you work on group projects in your classes you will notice that everyone will have so many of their own ideas and every individual will be able to bring their own ideas to the project. Its not like high school where if you had a group project everyone would turn to the smartest kid in the group for all the answers because everyone else is lazy. Which leads to the next point that to be an engineer you should learn to like working with others. Teamwork is the key. When you find a job coming out of college your not going to be working by yourself building and designing a 58 meter windmill blade; you are going to be working with a team of anywhere from 10 to 50 people who all bring their own skills set to the table and make the project possible. Speaking of windmills, as engineers we only have one goal in this world, and that is to help humanity. Everything you will do as an engineer and everything you learn about will help the world out in some way to make the planet a more efficient place for us to live in. That is why
The People
Within the UMass Amherst Amherst College of Engineering it will be very evident while sitting in class or walking through campus that you will have a wide variety of ethnicities around you. You can be sitting in chemistry class and have someone from China sitting next to you and then have someone from Africa sitting on the other side of you. People from all different countries and cultures come to colleges to succeed in life. Most people who are in your Higher level Engineering classes and haven’t been weeded out by the introduction classes will all have the same set of interests. The first being that just about everyone who is in the engineering college are not big fans of reading and writing and they love math and science which is why they would rather sit and do a thousand math problems over writing a paper. Secondly just about everyone who is going to succeed in the engineering program is extremely creative. When you work on group projects in your classes you will notice that everyone will have so many of their own ideas and every individual will be able to bring their own ideas to the project. Its not like high school where if you had a group project everyone would turn to the smartest kid in the group for all the answers because everyone else is lazy. Which leads to the next point that to be an engineer you should learn to like working with others. Teamwork is the key. When you find a job coming out of college your not going to be working by yourself building and designing a 58 meter windmill blade; you are going to be working with a team of anywhere from 10 to 50 people who all bring their own skills set to the table and make the project possible. Speaking of windmills, as engineers we only have one goal in this world, and that is to help humanity. Everything you will do as an engineer and everything you learn about will help the world out in some way to make the planet a more efficient place for us to live in. That is why