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CO U R S E S & C A REERS 8.   Entrepreneurship This may come as a surprise, but being an engineer does enable you to be an entrepreneur as well. Engineering training exposes you to businesses and gets you more familiar with things like finance and marketing, which is important for business purposes, and transferable skills will help you run your own company. Having technical knowledge will allow you to make a product and centre a business around it (just like John Phillip Green and Malgosia Green who studied computer science and systems design engineering and later founded LearnHub!). If you are smart, you have a responsibility to society. Don’t waste your brain power – become an engineer. Since the dawn of civilisation, engineers have worked to benefit society – developing everything from necessary forms of safety and security measures and transportation mechanisms, to devices and technologies that enrich life and make it better and more comfortable for everyone. ? Facts to know ?? • As an engineer, you will be provided with the most up-to-date technology that is needed to complete your project. Engineers also normally receive generous benefits. • The true value found in engineering is the ability to combine all tasks to create something greater (think 1 + 1 = 3!). This cannot be achieved without a team working together towards the same objective. • Engineering provides you with the opportunity to contribute to society and leave a lasting impression on the world. • The ability to create something special like a two-hundred-storey skyscraper or a car that runs on electricity is what truly makes the engineering field stand out! • As for financial security, engineering graduates do receive excellent entry-level starting salaries. • An engineering education will help you to understand how many things in the world work. By having a good understanding of technology, it will help you to understand the many challenges facing our society. • Engineering programmes worldwide are among the top, most-advanced educational programmes. You get to study with top-of-the-line technology, receive great placements and training, and join a profession like no other. DON’T WASTE YOUR BRAIN POWER – BECOME AN ENGINEER Ultimately, there is no perfect formula or criteria for determining your suitability to become an engineer. One of the first, and easiest, steps you can take to determine if you would enjoy engineering is to discover which industry or discipline you would like to work in. After that, find out which qualifications you need to obtain. Take your first step in your journey into engineering: http://bit.ly/EngineeringCourses. That being said, you need to be prepared to dedicate years of learning and practice to master a field of engineering; don’t expect to build an A380 airbus or the next Burj Khalifa within a year of completing your degree. easyuni Guide 20 2013 Issu Issue 2 9