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• Organization

  Purdue University

  
  
• Employment Status

  University / College Undergraduate

  
  
• Web Site

  http://tdougla

  
  
• Telephone

  219-671-6615

  
  
• Biography

  Part 1: Introduction The purpose of this profile is to portray some deeper characteristics and aspects of myself, present depth to the common application of a hard worker or fast learner, as well as the path that lead me to study engineering and the direction I hope this engineering degree will take me. My name is Taylor Douglas and I am studying to achieve a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. The reason for this goal began when I was a small boy. Like many current elementary students, I took a placement test to see where my skills and abilities would be best fit. After that test, the results displayed that I would best placed as an engineer. However since that day I thought to myself, “why would I ever want to be a train driver?” Progressing through middle school and high school, math was obviously my strong suit. On a practice SAT I scored in the top 98th percentile for math, and on the actual SAT I scored a 710 out of 800. The statistics and the scores were obvious, however I kept my eyes open. Though math has always been easy for me, I continued to search for any other place in which my other abilities could be utilized. Dabbling in music, teaching, counseling, water safety, secretarial, and hard labor, I found a lack of excitement and lack of satisfaction with completing a job. Whereas upon finishing an exam and especially following the completion of a semester, the satisfaction I feel is explosive, and I believe this emotion will cross over into the industry world as well. In areas such as completing a project, or fixing a problem in a design, the immense satisfaction that surrounds my being makes the journey leading up to completion completely worthwhile. Purdue became the obvious choice to take hold of this excitement, as it was the only school I had ever heard of for engineering, and it was rather close to home. Growing up surrounded by Purdue graduates and Purdue enthusiasts added to my impression of the greatness of Purdue Engineering.

  Part 2: Credentials and Experience While at Purdue University, I have been a part of a design team in the sophomore design class (me 263), and have been in teams for much of the encompassing classes of mechanical engineering. It is commonly spoken about that engineers need to have experience working in teams, and as such the classes at Purdue University are very team oriented. Laboratories and semester long projects ensure this, yet the teamwork does not stop there. Once the friendships and team mindset set in, the teams began to proceed to repeatedly work together. Communication of concepts and mathematical equations became a necessity in order to work together. Though the entire team is not at the same level of competence, a thorough understanding of each topic is required in order to teach and/or assist others in the class work. Through highly intensified semesters reaching up to an assumed 68 hours of work per week, my ability to stay on task and focus has greatly increased. Where time is precious, an appropriate distribution of where time can be spent has been developed. In other words I am organized in that I have to organize my time, as well as I am a hard/smart worker, as I do not simply have time to sit and learn material. Throughout high school I dove into the world of computer aided design. Since high school I have put in over 400 hours of AutoCAD work, and approximately 150 hours of CATIA work. I have always been capable of visualizing my ideas and placing projecting them onto a computer. Programs such as Microsoft Excel and MatLab are in my repertoire of commonly used programs to easily and rapidly discover visual representations and numerical representations of data. However my most esteemed and most exciting step in my engineering career to date has been my trip to China. Simply learning the cultural differences between the US and China were jaw dropping. The trip to China completely spiked my interest in global engineering, and my appreciation for it. Previous schooling gives me a small background into the Spanish language, and I hope to utilize this interest and become fluent in other languages and be able to work with other countries and other cultures. I will be taking a few weeks to shadow a toy company’s engineering team un the future for more experience in the field of engineering. I am not afraid of the engineering world, I know that I am but a child in my understanding, but I am quick to learn, and I do not settle with getting by. Friends that surround me have giving up there for me. Throughout my career as a student, I have over come many family matters. Growing up, my family did not stay in one place for more than a few years, and I have attended over a dozen schools. I have endured close family members deaths, divorce in the family, and isolation. Yet none of this has halted me in my yearning for success. I thank God for everything that has happened and I press on through anything that gets laid on my shoulders.

  Part 3: Professional Interests and Career Goals Many people have knowledge of who Bill Gates is and who Steve Jobs was. Growing up I heard a story of how they worked together, but Bill Gates stole the technology and the ideas from Steve Jobs. Bill Gates became the rich man and Steve Jobs became the man struggling to win second prize, until recently. I do not however today know if this story is true or not, but I do know that I will never steal an idea from another engineer. I strongly believe that honesty and respect is needed in the work environment and I will uphold such interests. Over the next few years as an engineer, I know that I will have to do work that I may feel is below me. Yet I know that all the work I do is for the final position I will achieve. My lasting goal in life is to be an entrepreneur of the things I create. I understand that I will need to create my own company in order to be this entrepreneur. My focus has not yet been set, however with mechanical engineering my horizons are as broad as possible. This is partially my reason for choosing mechanical engineering yet I also know that mechanical machines make sense to me. What’s most important in my life is to bring glory to my God and his son Jesus. I am happy to endure whatever it takes as long as it takes to reach His goals for my life. The things at stake if I do not put forth my best effort, are a world that remains in the same path line as it currently is, and an ill equipped world. I read the guidelines for what this part of the profile is meant to be written about and I find humor in the wording, “Vision: Looking ahead, how do I expect to contribute?” The answer to this question may come strange to the reader of this profile. In the days of old, visionaries and dreamers were simply that, visionaries and dreamers. Where by divine intent dreamers were given dreams, and visionaries visions; the vision of my life and my contribution was given to me by one of these old time visionaries. The vision of my life is to be an entrepreneur, where the things I create are used throughout the world, where I have wisdom in all the ways of this world. This adds to my interest in a broad engineering degree; the fact that I am meant to have an understanding of all the ways of this world. The big problems of this world are not simply technological, yet I do intend to make devices that are simpler to use, more user friendly. The big problems lie in the hearts of men, yet how else to reach the hearts of men then with funding. My goal of reaching the hearts of men has been driving my passion for engineering. I end you with these quotes, from a man who died long ago. “If God is for us, then who could be against us,” and “being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to the completion.“

  
  
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