Engineering students must enhance their communication skills and gain practical work experience to better define their career aspirations. Universities should connect students with companies and alumni to facilitate this process, especially for internships and early job opportunities. The necessity for first job experiences is emphasized, as they are integral to personal and professional development.

1. Engineer students have to
improve communication
skills.
Engineer students have to
improve communication
skills.
Say
Think
Feel
Do
• Work lets you define the person you want to be in the
future.
• When you have 24, you don't know what you want
• All careers at the university are complex and give you a lot
of elements.
• When you get out of college, you feel that you know a lot of
a lot all things but not enough
• Its not good that you enter to a master or specialization
without having a work experience.
• Only 10% of the student really know what they want.
• School teach you basic tools. Most of them are technical.
• School teach you the tools for you to search the answers
• University needs to link companies, students and alumnus
• Students can use teachers an subjects to start looking what
they want.
• Work has to be seen as a learning activity where your ideas
can be developed.
• Parents have no function. Because, they have very different
ideas and opinions.
• Teachers that guide students have to have special
conditions.
Teacher
• Engineer students have to improve communication skills.
• We need to clarify what's a job for student and their expectations.
• Its important to have a professional experience For example internships.
• You need to have work experience before you jump into a master.
• Alumnus are key in the process of finding the
first job.
• The companies that receive students or interns have
to be big or well stablished.They need to have a formal organization with
structure. Example Ford
• First, he was not paying attention
• to the interview but later he liked it.
• He doesn’t like cameras and videos and worst be
recorded.
• Little Shy
• Students feel lost.
• They need to find companies that let
them fall in love or hate with work.
• They need to thinks its temporary.
Time is not a issue
• Family has to support students with
their decisions. Its their time to
experiment.
This presentation was made by Patricia Alvarado at 2013

2. Problem Statement
Stakeholde
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because
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Need
PHD professor that specializes in
Automatic Control that likes to hep
students and works in the research
field
• Students need to have a job to discover
what they want to be in the future.
• Students need to find how they see
themselves in 10 years.
• Students need to define what a job is
and what are they expectations.
• Students need to connect with
companies and alumnus.
• University needs to be link between
the students, the companies and
alumnus.
• Students need companies that are
willing to teach.
Carlos needs a way to talk to students about job opportunities because First job
experiences are crucial for peoples development.
First job experiences are crucial to
peoples development.
In general, the first job sucks.
Companies have to be open to
teach students when they are
taking this first opportunities.
University has a key rol in the
process.
This presentation was made by Patricia Alvarado at 2013

3. Engineer students have to
improve communication
skills.
Engineer students have to
improve communication
skills.
Say
Think
Feel
Do
• You don't have to work right away after you finish college.
• There are students that finish school and they don't work in
what they study. You have other options when you finish
school. You can travel, dedicate time to think what do you
want to do next.
• Its better to study and work in what your are studying at
the same time. To apply what you are learning and putting
them into practice immediately.
• If you study and work at the same time you can gain
maturity.
• Every country is different.
• Careers and jobs are way to improve your social status.
• Latin society demands people to produce money to buy
products and services.
• A job is a social convention. There is a belief that you need
to have a stable job to be happy. If you don’t have a job.
You are excluded.
• The Latin-American city is violent and aggressive. You need
to have money in order to enjoy life. Everything is for sale.
You need to have money in order to have quality.
• University gives you the tools to find a job. But there are
students that aren't prepared enough.
• University has to provide the resources for students to
connect with their profession. They need to treat students
as professionals.
Master
Student
• We need to clarify what's a job for student and their
expectations.
• Its important to study and work and the same time. They have
to be related.
• First jobs are important for peoples development.
• You need to find a job that you can develop your skills.
• Young people should be able to work around the globe, learn
about different cultures,
• You have to go away your comfort zone.
• Serious and Formal.
• Paying attention
• Considered, curious
•Students feel lost.
•Students have different needs.
• Every country is different.
•Students really need to explore what they like
and don’t. They need to have the time to discover.
•Students that work in the field they are studying
are happier. They have the chance to find out
what they love or what they will like to do.
This presentation was made by Patricia Alvarado at 2013

4. Problem Statement
Stakeholde
r Needs a
way to
(Needs are
verbs)
because
Insigh
ts
Need
Master Student in Environment and
Urban Development. She lives in
Buenos Aires, Argentina by
herself.She had the possibility to
explore what she wanted to do for
almost 2 years. Trying things.
• Students need to have time to discover
what they want..
• Students need to define what a job is
and what are they expectations.
• Students need along their career
professional experiences
• Students have different needs
depending on the country they live in.
• Students need to find a job that let
them discover their capabilities.
• Students need social status.
• Students need to think that the time
spent in their career is going to be
worthy.
First job experiences are crucial
to peoples development.
In general, the first job sucks.
Students have different need
depending on their country
they lived.
The environment is crucial for
students decisions.
Students need to have
professional experience during
their career.
Fedora needs a way to clarify what job is and students expectations because First job
experiences are crucial for peoples development.
This presentation was made by Patricia Alvarado at 2013