Degree Engagement Reflection

Degree Engagement Reflection Jalen Wilson 10-5-20 1. When a student takes a specific major they like, I think they should get all the information they can learn from it. They should get a feel of what the work environment may be like and all the stuff they would need to know to stay successful with that major. A major is important because it helps you get a grasp of what you may want to do in life and prepares you for what may come to the next level. A major should help steer a student to what they want to do in life or help them find what they are good at. 2. What I think I should get out of my major is a feel of how the workplace will be for a mechanical engineer. I want to be able to work with people and attempt to build something incredible. I want to be able to learn what I need to do to do the best I can and also how it would be if we created something or innovated something. The steps we would have to take to show it to the world and how to explain it to the people. This is important for me because I already have ideas and solutions to problems that can be solved with technology. I just want to know the steps I would have to take to make my ideas known and effective without it being stolen from me. The experience that led me to my major was always having a love for engineering and building things. My parents supported me for what I liked and just did their best to put me in an environment with other kids like me. I would also be in clubs at school that helped with how I may do some things in the engineering world and just getting us prepared for college and life. 3. There are many minors I have thought about that will help with what I want to do in life that is outside of engineering. One minor in Health Education and Promotion to know about things in the health world because I want to use my engineering skills to better things dealing with people’s health issues. I want to first start with prosthetic limbs and try to perfect them. Also want to use health to learn more about the brain to see how that works in dealing with technology. Another minor I consider is also Photography/ Digital Imaging because I took a photography class in high school and loved it. I did excellent in the class and sometimes love to take pictures of things, wouldn’t be bad to have multiple sources of income. The things you can do with photography and how creative it is just nice, this is also a way to show me and let people see things how I see them.