Professional Interview

Name: Anish Roy

Class Period: 1B

Home Campus: Heritage High School

Project Objective: Conduct a personal interview with a professional in the field of engineering,

engineering technology, or another high-tech, high-demand field.

Design Process: For this project, I had to conversate with a multitude of engineers and find the perfect adult to interview for my chosen engineering field. After setting up a time when they were available, I interviewed them about their occupation, while writing down the conversation on a transcript. Subsequently, I created a presentation that displayed the answers to the questions I interviewed by professionals about, and finally, I gave a presentation to my class.

Learning Target: Gather the interview information in your engineering notebook for review and

reflection during the interview process. Your completed interview documentation must be in electronic form and submitted in Google Classroom. We will present our findings to the class.

Personal Reflection: I learned many things from Mr. Dey, but the most important would have to be is to not procrastinate on my learning. Mr. Dey advised me on the fact that no matter when it has to happen, I will need to learn all the information my classes teach. If I focus in my earlier years then I can learn more and learn without stress. Mr. Dey emphasized that if I learn more in my first few years then I would have to cram less which results in significantly less stress. Furthermore, I think that this project strongly influenced my feelings and my passion for engineering in a positive direction. I was particularly swayed by Mr. Dey’s comments on the use of experimentation and model creation in electrical engineering. I find design and model manipulation to be very interesting, and if those two were to be combined with electrical engineering, an interesting field in itself, the possibility of genuine happiness in my workspace setting would be extremely high. However, some very surprising things were said during the interview as well, many things that I did not previously know, for example, Mr. Dey explained that multiple different sciences and maths were applied to electrical engineering. Furthermore, design, experimentation, and organizational skills are also very important when organizing data and performing experiments with electrical chips. This really surprised me because I previously believed that electrical engineering majorly consisted of electrical physics and that's it, it really opens my eyes to how broad your talent needs to be to perform well as an electrical engineer.