CHAPTER 2

PREPARING FOR
AN ENGINEERING
CAREER

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 Making the Transition from High
School to College

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 Budgeting Your Time

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 Daily Studying and Preparation
• Attend your classes regularly.
• Get help right away.
• Take good notes.
• Select a good study place.
• Form study groups.
• Prepare for examinations.

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 Getting Involved with an
Engineering Organization

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 Your Graduation Plan
• With your advisor, list all the classes
that you need to take in order to obtain
your degree.
• Make sure you understand the
prerequisites for each class and in
which semester a class typically is
offered.

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 Other Considerations
• Do volunteer work.
• Vote in local and national elections.
• Get to know your classmates.
• Get to know an upper-division
engineering student.

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 Group Activity No. 2
• Prepare a schedule for the current term (First
Quarter School Year 2015-2016). Keep track
of how closely you are following the
schedule and where time is being used
inefficiently. Select what you think is the
best schedule, and discuss it with your
group. Discuss also the pros and cons of
each of the schedule and present it in class.

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