Critique of Speakers
To start off, our first speaker was Dr. Wilson who spoke about engineering I general. He spoke about where you would fit in the world and his son’s story about breaking his leg twice. This talk has inspiring while seeing what engineers could accomplish and the future for engineering.
The next speaker that we had spoke about the ROTC programs at Catholic and around the country. Lieutenant Mary Coyne talked about her own experiences as well as her journey joining the military. She was very inspiring, because as a woman she faced the military head on and proved that women can succeed in the military. Her inspiring speech to join ROTC and the military gave me inspiration and respect for our armed forces.
Dr. Darryl Barnes was a class act and was very good at what he did. Barnes was a researcher and experiment expert. Dr. Darryl Bones first taught us that to search for a job that you enjoy, and you will never work a day in your life. He did many experiments with liquid nitrogen, which were very interesting and might have been somewhat targeted toward a younger crowd but still was interesting.
The next week, we had the guest speaker Dr. Jay Richards who spoke out on his views about modern day technology. He talks about the difference of technology from the past to modern day. He speaks out about how modern day technology has influenced society so that it is much different than in the past.
The next speaker that talked to us was Mark Bell who spoke more about law and ethics. He talked about the ethics that we need to follow in order to not get in trouble and stay ethical engineers. He talked about the rules and regulations that most companies follow to keep their operations ethical and keep in like with industry.
The next week we heard from Chris Danek, who spoke on his teaching position teaching students about entrepreneurship. While I have no interest in becoming an entrepreneur, it was a good opportunity at hearing another person who taught about picking a job that you enjoy doing. He talked a lot about building something of your own and selling that idea or object.
Another speaker that we heard from was Kim Clark. She spoke about her passion of journalism and media. She talked about the influence of news article titles and how they can be swayed in different ways to make you feel a certain way. We participated in an activity where we came up with our own news titles which were read in front of the class which was interesting and fun.
These speakers were all inspiring in their own ways to me in finding my career path. I feel that the biggest inspiring speakers were Mary Coyne and Darryl Barnes whose main point was to follow what you enjoy doing and to pursue a career path that is enjoyable because you will be miserable otherwise. I feel that to find my career path personally, I am going to have to do some research and look for jobs that I would enjoy doing and pursue that. Then once I have pursued something I enjoy, work hard and ethically to make it to the top and be the best I can be.