beginning My Engineering Career At PENN STATE UNIVERSitY 

ELD Minor

Welcome to My Portfolio. I am currently a sophomore civil engineering student at Penn State; with a minor in Engineering Leadership Development. I am taking on this minor in order to prepare myself as an engineer and to take on leadership roles in the technical work environment. I have learned so much through these courses, and am excited to share the challenges I have overcome during my semester in Technology Based Entrepreneurship. 

Experience

Engineering 407 has taught me more about creativity and innovation in business and entrepreneurship. The idea behind this course, is to allow students to recognize the challenges it take to create and develop a product from a vision and idea to physical product on the market.

Strategy

The Engineering Leadership Development minor focuses on preparing students for the real world by providing us with a technical work environment and work experiences. This minor allows students to gain an understanding of the individual, team and workplace leadership roles which allow for greater innovation and management skills. Students get to experience real world scenarios, and interact with companies and professionals in our intended fields.

success

Through the Engineering Leadership Development Minor classes which I have been enrolled in, I have gained an immense amount of real world experience, such as developing a product for Lockheed Martian, developing a company  and sales pitch to present to judges or touring, and meeting nuclear engineers at the Limerick Nuclear power plant . 

i have experience & proven

success





I am currently a sophomore Civil Engineering Student with a minor in Engineering Leadership Development. Through this minor, I have completed many activities, which have broaden my scope of knowledge in the real world work environment. This minor has allowed me to gain a further understanding of how to accomplish tasks in both an individual and group setting, while still contributing the highest amount of innovation and creativity to a project I can. 

Although I have done many projects with my ELD minor groups, the project which showed the most innovation, while still full filling client needs, was an Engineering Design project my freshman year. This project was a client based engineering design competition which focused on our teams being able to develop and establish a prototype of an innovative and unique product, which also satisfied the needs of the clients. Through this assignment, I gained a deeper understanding of the importance of the restrictions which clients requested, and how these requests, can change the overall design of the product. 



my unique

strategy

I deviate from the normal engineer in many ways, but I believe my biggest contribution is my ability to apply my technical knowledge to the business side of engineering. I am confident in my ability to present an idea, sell a pitch, and have stronger technical knowledge of the product than a regular business person.

I believe team work is essential if you want to create a innovative product. I am highly productive in a group setting, and develop some of my best work in team settings. 

I am a very team work oriented individual. Teams are the root to achieving success. Although an individual can achieve a level of personal success on their own, in the larger scene of things, it takes the combination of multiple people's work and knowledge, to create the intricate and unique ideas which are present today. 

previous

Projects

 

PROTIEN BAR 

 

CRASH N' BURN

 

                       JUNK YARD WARS 

 

FAILURE RESUME 

 

PERIMETER TAXIWAYS 

My Favorite

Projects 

The final project of our Engineering 407, Eunterprenurship class, was the designing and building of a company form scratch, which allowed students to gain a bit of an understanding of the planning, time and money which goes into starting a company. Our group chose to combine the opportunity for educational experience along side work opportunities. I highly enjoyed this project because of the ingenuity and creativity, which went into planning this project, along with the ability to keep building on our creativity throughout the project. 

The Airport Research Innovation Project, was a project that I participated in during my time in another ELD minor class. This project was highly interesting to me, as a civil engineer, because my group chose to restructure an airports runway, in pursuit of innovative strategies to reduce airline fuel consumption. Therefore, with the restructuring and redesign of the runway system, airlines in the long run will save money.

Crash and Burn Project, was one of my favorite experiences during the 407 class curriculum. This project allowed students to express their creativity to the max. The basis of this project was to turn trash into treasure and use only the materials you consider "trash" into a useful piece. My group transformed a lamp fixture, umbrella, and garbage can, into a portable charging station, which is weather resistant. 

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