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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.
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Facts to know
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• 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.
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