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Deadline 14 January 2022 9am

Why this assignment?

During this course, you have explored what engineers can do: how you wish to contribute to challenging, reimagining and shaping society. This does not mean you now need to know definitively what you want to do as a professional engineer. This course was a chance to explore potential avenues, which we hope you have done. In this final essay, you focus on one potential career path, to explore how that field connects to society, which capabilities you then might need, and how your time at Aalto could help you develop those.

Instructions

Write an essay of approximately 2,000 words (~4 pages) in which you cover the sections described below. The number of words is an indication of the length, it is fine to have 20% less or more for each section - quality in terms of clarity, relevance and specificity matters more than quantity as such. As this is one of the two assignments that largely determines your grade on the course, check out the grading rubric before you start.

Part I. Potential career

1. Identify a promising career direction (~350 words). What do you see as one potential, promising career direction for yourself? Do some research and immerse yourself in this potential future career direction, focusing specifically on your role and professional responsibilities.

1. What kind of work might this career direction mean in practice? What kind of position or organization could you work in, what could be key tasks or responsibilities in this career direction?

2. What kind of societal impact would you have in this field and role? What kind of issues might you contribute to, and how might society shape your work?

Part II. Needed capabilities in the career direction

2. Skills (~250 words). Identify three skills that you might need in this future career landscape. Justify in depth why you have chosen exactly these three skills as useful in the promising career direction you identified.

3. Knowledge areas (~250 words). Identify three knowledge areas that you might need in this future career landscape. Justify in depth why you have chosen exactly these three knowledge areas as useful in the promising career direction you identified.

4. Attitudes (~250 words). Identify three attitudes that you might need in this future career landscape. Justify in depth why you have chosen exactly these three attitudes as useful in the promising career direction you identified.

Part III. Learning journey

5. Skills (~300 words). Choose one of the skills you identified in question 2 that seems relevant for you:

1. Describe why this skill is desirable, viable, and feasible for you;

2. Develop a reasonable and meaningful learning goal for you to improve this skill this academic year;

3. Identify a potentially relevant course (at Aalto or elsewhere) that might support you in achieving this goal, explaining why and how this could be useful in reaching the learning goal;

4. Identify a potentially relevant extra-curricular activity (hobby, work, association, self-study) that might support you in achieving this goal, explaining why and how this could be useful in reaching the learning goal.

6. Knowledge areas (~300 words). Choose one of the knowledge areas you identified in question 3 that seems relevant for you:

1. Describe why this knowledge area is desirable, viable, and feasible for you;

2. Develop a reasonable and meaningful learning goal for you to improve this knowledge area this academic year;

3. Identify a potentially relevant course (at Aalto or elsewhere) that might support you in achieving this goal, explaining why and how this could be useful in reaching the learning goal;

4. Identify a potentially relevant extra-curricular activity (hobby, work, association, self-study) that might support you in achieving this goal, explaining why and how this could be useful in reaching the learning goal.

7. Attitudes (~300 words). Choose one of the attitudes  you identified in question 3 that seems relevant for you:

1. Describe why this attitude is desirable, viable, and feasible for you;

2. Develop a reasonable and meaningful learning goal for you to improve this attitude this academic year;

3. Identify a potentially relevant course (at Aalto or elsewhere) that might support you in achieving this goal, explaining why and how this could be useful in reaching the learning goal;

4. Identify a potentially relevant extra-curricular activity (hobby, work, association, self-study) that might support you in achieving this goal, explaining why and how this could be useful in reaching the learning goal.