If We Build It You Will Come

A mechanical engineer contributes to today’s society by giving people who don’t like changing their oil, and have someone else their oil changed. Also if someone looses a trainee or a drive shaft or your header is cracked they need someone to repair it if they cant, so they actually have a car to drive back n’ forth from work. If you broke down in the middle of nowhere we can have a tow truck and they bring it by the shop and we can fix it in a matter of days if not the hours. This is how my profession contributes to society.
OH!!! like this one time this guy called from literally the middle of nowhere and his motor mount had broken, which made his trainee fall out and made his motor set down like a foot from where it should be…So i brought it to the shop and i went out back to get a motor mount replaced the motor mount, bolts, and trainee and it was good as new

~ T.Rowe

Auto-Mechanic

My profession contributes to society for the following reasons. If your car was broken down for example with engine failure, I could try to fix the engine. If I could not fix the engine I would have to buy a new engine and put it in the vehicle. If there was no vehicles of any kind and we had to walk everywhere we would not need auto-mechanics. We would not need auto-mechanics because they would not have anything to do to make money for themselves. Auto-mechanics can make sure there is less pollution in the air from the exhaust pipes so we would not have as much polluted air. If we were to lose vehicles, the people that were overweight would lose some weight, but I don’t think we will be losing our vehicles any time soon.

Josh T.

Architects, like myself, contribute to society in many ways. First of all, they give people the ability to makes their dreams reality. Some one who always wanted their “dream house” or just a house of there own, may not have had the skills or creativity necessary to make that possible. Architects provide these skills for them so all they have to do is pay the price, and their dreams could come true. Architects also contribute to society because they help build big corporate buildings and other important. Without architects, these buildings may not exist, and companies would probably have less employees because of space. We also contribute to society because we make sure that buildings and houses are safe for people to live in. If someone constructed a house or building by themselves with no education or experience, then the building could collapse, or be more likely to be damaged by weather. For example, I had a customer, with little education about architecture, who tried building their house on their own. They did not put a foundation in. They lived in Kansas. Can you see where this is going? A tornado came and swept their house right off the ground. Luckily they were on vacation when it happened, but boy did they have a welcome home surprise for them!  That is how architects contribute to society.
~Jess

My line of professional architecture contributes to society in many ways. Such as providing well designed homes for people that need them. The homes don’t just need to be designed well but have a good structure. It is up to me to to create nice homes for people to live in. For example , when an architect drafts a home I give myself some guidelines. The home needs to be in sync with the style of today and must be well structure. As an architect I must try to stay within these terms. I’ve drafted homes that looked creative and cool looking but at the end of the day I have to design a home in the well being of the people. I contribute to society in more ways then one. Such as: People can contact me and describe features of the house they would like. At that point I can draft them a home that they described. A person should have the opportunity to be heard and have the home of their dreams.

Casey L

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To be a professional mechanical engineer you would have to have a lot of knowledge in auto mechanics… here are some things you need to know…

First of all you will need to know how to assemble and disassemble a motor and how to fix a motor and know what you need to get when you know what is wrong with it.(to make it easier… put the parts in the order you take them out.)

The next thing is organization skills because you wanna to know where your tools are when you need them and it makes it a lot easier to know where somethin’ is when you need.

The next thing would be clothes. you would wanna wear jeans and a t-shirt and or long sleeve shirt cause you’ll more than likely need to wield the frame or somethin’ and you don’t wanna get burnt. Steel toe boots are a good thing to have if your lugging around heave equipment.

~T.Rowe

In my line of professional work there are a couple of things you would need to be good at. The biggest one would probably be to have a good imagination. You need to be able to have ideas that could someday turn into realty. For example a normal person would draw a home with a rectangular door and a few windows with a peaked roof. If you were to ask me to draft a home it would probably consist of multiple floors, sections, porches, and doors.You need to have a very creative mind to be an architect. There are other things too. You also need to have good skills in teamwork and with people. You must be able to communicate with coworkers and know how to approach different types of people. That is the only way you can “sell’’ your ideas and become a great professional architect. Now you ask me if I have those traits I’ve went into depth on. Yes I think I do. I get along and achieve in this type of work, but there is always room for improvement. Do you think you could be an architect?

-Casey L

Response to post #2

Some of the qualities of being an auto-mechanic are, knowing the tools you are working with and knowing the parts of the vehicle that you are working on. I have the qualities of being a professional auto-mechanic because I know the parts of the vehicles that I am expected to know. Some of the parts on a car include the fan belt, piston rods, a cadillac converter and more. Being an auto-mechanic means you will be fixing many kinds of vehicles. You will have to be able to work on motorcycles, cars, trucks, vans, and sometimes RV’s.
Josh

There are certain qualities you must have to become an architect. I happen to possess some of these qualities. One quality you must have is that you must be very neat in your work. You have to make sure that your drafts are clean, unwrinkled, and smudge-free. If your drafts have erasers marks everywhere and are folded and wrinkled, then you are more likely to make mistakes when actually constructing your drafts. This is one quality that I have. If I erase something I make sure that if you were looking at my draft you would never be able to tell if anything was there. I also keep all my drafts in a folder, that way when I travel from home to work or vise versa, all my papers and drafts are easy to find and undamaged. Another quality you must have, that I have, is that you must be thorough. You must make sure that you label and draw everything. If you draw something and don’t label it, or you don’t draw something that should have been there, then when you go to construct something there will be lots of confusion and it will end up taking more time to fix the problem than it would have to just double check or do it in the first place.
Those are some of the major qualities that I possess as a professional architect.

~Jess M.

Hello Everyone!  Very well done on your first practice post.  This one will be the first one that is graded, so be sure to spell check, read over, have someone check before you publish!!!

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What qualities do you have that allow you to be professional in your career? Ms. D