Now I am probably the only humanities major in E125. As a pre-business freshman, I am probably one of the youngest as well. So why in the world would a second semester first year want to take an engineering ethics class with some of the best minds in the country? Well, I admire them and perhaps one day, I will be one of them.  My sojourn in ethics class should bring me one step closer to committing to a major switch, or at least add a minor. I hope that surrounding myself with all the ideas of engineering (without the intimidation of hard math and science) will get my demons to scurry away. At a minimum, as a business major I would like to enter an engineering firm in management so the responsibilities of the professional objective really appeals to me. If everything would be dandy, that would be an automotive manufacturer, Porsche to be exact. I am extremely interested in all things car related and today’s leaps in bounds in autonomous vehicles are very appealing. So to summarize, I am a pre-business major looking into a discipline a night-and-day different from my own: engineering.

It is quite the battle internally. For the greater part of my life I have been business interested. I sold paper airplanes at my dad’s shop when I was little, I was the business guy at my school’s student government and now I am taking econ and UGBA. But I also played with Legos. I had as much fun building bridges and buildings out of scrap wood with my father. I enjoyed making the paper airplanes almost more than selling them. My family says business, but my friends and my mind tell me engineering. So I am at a crossroad, and that is why I am taking Engineering Ethics and Society.

So what I hope to gain from this experience is a sure fire way to determine if engineering, mechanical to be precise, is something that I would love or something that maybe is just a phase in my life. All the questions that arise during class and the people who answer them are my influential factors. If I can keep up with what people say, and what people say sound awesome, then I am all in.

Aforementioned, I would like to enter Porsche in management, so the objective to discover what the professional responsibilities are of an engineer can prove to be very useful. We mentioned in class a few problems that arise between management and the engineers and many of the conflicts arose from poor communication. It cannot hurt to learn both sides of an argument right? As a manger in Porsche or some other car manufacturer, I am surely going to step in at a time where self-driving cars are being tested widespread and so that is something I would very much like to investigate further. And as a pre-haas major, I think my wish to explore a discipline other than my own is quite clear, it is engineering in its entirety.