EE 198A San Jose State University Career Planning and Management Essay

(Individual) GE Area S Essay 1: Five-Year Career Plan (500 words minimum, graded by Area S graders)

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Five-Year Career Plan: In order to build a success career and life, you have to have a plan. This paper is a reflection on your main career goals and how you plan to reach them. You should refer to the file “ENG 198A Lecture 1 – Who are you and where are you going” for this essay.

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A. Why do you want to pursue a career in electrical engineering?

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• When and how did you get interested?
• How your wish for becoming an engineer was shaped by cultural and societal influences?

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B. Select a job/career that is right for you

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• Describe three top values that are most important to you as you make career decision and pick one job and/or company that you would like to work in/for.
• Highlight one specific task for the job you picked that is interesting to you and why.

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C. How do you plan to build relevant experience and keep learning?

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• Identify one of your potential gap (where you need to develop) for the job that you picked and identify a specific way of addressing the gap (e.g. take a specific class, complete an internship, etc.)
• How do you keep up with the technology (learning strategies)?

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(Individual) GE Area S Essay 2: Your Project’s Implication in Area S (500 words minimum, graded by Area S graders).

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Your Project’s Implication in Area S

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The projects that engineers work on are situated in a complex historical, social, political, and economic system that can contributes to diversity, equality, and structured inequalities in the U.S. How your project (or a technology that is relevant to your project, not presented in ENGR 195A) has a potential impact (or has impacted) diversity, equality, and/or structured inequalities in the United States. Your essay must cite your sources and include a reference section that follows the APA 6.0 or IEEE standard (minimum 500 words)

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If your project does not have a clear connection to Area S issues (such as designing an electronics component), you can think about the question at a higher level . For example, if your project is about designing a faster transistor, you can talk about how the semiconductor industry, in general, contributes to diversity, equality, and structured inequalities in the U.S.

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(Individual) GE Area S Essay 3: Lead-free (500 words minimum, graded by Area S graders).

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Lead-free: Describe how the push for a lead-free standard in electronic products (RoHS) increased social justice in the U.S. (minimum 500 words)

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Sample Reference Articles:

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• Some good sources from Prof. Backer: https://www.patagonia.com/actionworks/campaigns/environmental-justice-is-racial-justice/?utm_source=em&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=012721_PAW_EJ (Links to an external site.)
• Thomas K. Grose (November 2020). Engineers are exploring novel recycling methods to keep communities from drowning in a toxic tsunami of cast-off electronics. Available: http://www.asee-prism.org/virtuous-circle/ (Links to an external site.)
• Anderson, M. (2013, September 11). Electronics Waste Programs Ineffective in Most U.S. States. IEEE Spectrum, Available: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/electronics-waste-programs-ineffective-in-most-us-states (Links to an external site.)
• Greenemeier, L. (2009, October 29). U.S. Lags Behind World with Its Patchwork Approach to Curbing E-Waste. Scientific American. Available: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=electronic-waste-control (Links to an external site.)
• State E-Waste Disposal Bans Have Been Largely Ineffective (2013, September 10). Science Daily. Available: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130910112816.htm (Links to an external site.)
• (Links to an external site.)Getting the Lead Out of Electronics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281311/ (Links to an external site.)

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Read this article on proper references (Links to an external site.)

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The writing center will edit the first page for you well.

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Sorry to be harsh, but if the first paragraph has errors, I will be forced to reject the paper.