PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW Interview a professional in your chosen field of study.

DO NOT interview a faculty member, an academic advisor or a parent or close relative. Your report MUST BE TYPED, and a MINIMUM OF TWO PAGES. Note the due date in your syllabus. The paper will be graded on spelling and punctuation, adherence to requirements, etc.. Call or e-mail for an appointment as soon as possible. YOU MAY NOT CONDUCT THE INTERVIEW VIA E-MAIL!!! You may, however, conduct it in person or by phone if that is agreeable to the interviewee. Plan your interview questions ahead of time (see suggested questions below). The Cover page should include: your name, name of person interviewed, their occupation including job title, their place of employment, and their academic major while they were in college. The body of the paper should include the following categories and answer the following questions: 1. Job Responsibilities: What are the major job responsibilities of this position? 2. A Day in the Life Of...: Describe a day in the life and a week in the life of this engineer. 3. Education: What educational background is required for this position? What specific skills are needed to perform this job? What classes from an undergraduate degree are most useful to the performance of this job? What, if any, are the needs for more education/ skill training after getting the job? 4. Career Issues: How does the persons current position relate to a whole career (current job is culmination or one stage along the path--what does the career path look like)? 5. Personal Response: Prior to this interview, what were your assumptions/ideas about this career? How have your ideas changed since the interview, if at all? How well do you think you would fit into this position, given your knowledge about your own interests, values and abilities? What are your overall impressions of this position and this career field in general? Suggested Interview Questions: a. What engineering discipline did you study? b. What engineering discipline/specific skills/knowledge from specific courses do you actually use on the job? What particular courses of those you took have been helpful/relevant? c. What do you do daily? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly? What percentage of your time on the job is spent in the various engineering job functions (design, testing, development, management, analysis, etc.)?

d. What are the high points and low points of this job? What are the high points and low points of your career? e. What kind of people do well in this career area? Why did you select this area? f. What is your sense of where the jobs are in this field (geographically; city/urban/suburban/country; manufacturing vs. service; consulting vs. hands-on; etc.) g. Are there areas of educational specialization that should be considered either during or after an undergrad degree? h. Are educational updates or higher educational degrees necessary? i. What does a career-long path look like in this field? What sorts of preparation for the future and/or changes of jobs or companies would one expect along the way? j. What changes have you noticed or do you expect in your field? k. With your degree, you chose this particular career path. What other career opportunities did you/do you have? Why might you not have taken a particular path that was possible for you, given your educational background? l. Other questions that you, the interviewer, may have for the professional, such as other questions that might be suggested during the interview itself. Or, are there other interesting facts or comments might the interviewee wish to share that were not covered in this list of suggested questions?

ENGINEERING SURVEY 100 CONTACTS FOR PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW

Welding Engineering Nancy Porter Edison Welding Institute Nancy_Porter@ewi.org 688-5000 Randy Dull Edison Welding Institute randy_dull@ewi.org 688-5000 J. Luke Yoder FARO Technologies YoderJ@faro.com 614-397-4629 James Cruz Honda of America Mfg., Inc. James_Cruz@HAM.HONDA.COM 937-642-5000, ext. 4121

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Russ Ballard Cardinal Health rballard@kpmg.com 757-5294 Sheilah Harrison Abbott Labs sheilah.harrison@abbott.com 624-6223 Matt Endress Cardinal Health endress1@yahoo.com 757-3334 Matthew Fratta Consolidated Stores Mfratta@biglots.com 278-6930 Erin WInegarden The O.S.U. Medical Center winegarden-1@medctr.osu.edu

Sophia Baidya-Mohr NetJets sbaidya@columbus.rr.com

Joshua Shuff UPS coh2jgs@ups.com 870-4236 Tim Voght Tigerpoly Manufacturing Inc. tvoght@tigerpoly.com 871-0045