As, as an engineering student, you begin to advance your career and the first glimmerings avizoras your arrival to obtain the "as dreamed academic degree", also begin to understand that there is a real, physical world out there, much more complex than you might have thought during your days as a student. To be an outstanding engineer, some of the things you need to know, not necessarily learn in college. This is understandable, given the time (relatively) short to live in your passage through it, together with the significant differences between the objectives of a house of studies and the requirements that the work activity, industry or the real world, you require. Here are some of the basic things that the University does not teach you.

1 - You must learn to be a professional business-oriented, rather than the development and / or design.
Is a key priority to understand the "cost of doing business." It means understanding the total costs involved for your company or organization, make a product. This basic concept is relevant to any engineering discipline. From the first bolt to the last drop of tin. You must learn to understand the relevance of monetary gain. If you work for a company, it is important that you become aware and reasoning assume that your company is in business to make profits as a reason for their existence (except you work for a company subsidized by the state) and will go bankrupt if that does not happen until, finally, come when you'll no longer have a job. So, first think of the profits of the company, if it is covered, you can unleash your creativity, spirituality, ethical principles, moral and feeding the dreams of inventions developed during your college years.



2 - multidisciplinary problems and your unique specialty.
The problems you face in a classroom during your career as a student are difficult, although in most cases you solve them with the knowledge acquired within the study area of ​​your specialty. Quite the contrary, in real life many of the obligations require you to dabble in multidisciplinary work. This will make your life in the workplace is exciting, challenging and rewarding. Therefore, part of "your" interest is the fact extend beyond "what they taught you" and you should move to expand (by yourself) your technical knowledge in theory and practice in all disciplines of engineering, much as possible. You will learn many fundamentals of relevant specialties (who will be involved in your area) very different from yours.

Major universities may give you some experience in this area, through field experiences or internships in any industry that produces products not always directly related to your field of study. For example, while studying Electronic Engineering, you can do an internship in metallurgy or in an architectural firm. Always talking about the same race, you can intervene in the design of a circuit for Formula One, in a glider, the stability of a system of satellite and thousands of end products, at first impression, have nothing to do with your major and where your relationship with other "disciplines" may take you to "be part of a group or team."

3 - Learn to work in groups
Joining a workgroup does not mean that you will be waiting as a professional specialist and star in your field. You will be one that will fulfill a specific role where there are other "pairs" with your own specialty and they have the added bonus of experience and "office" in the work area where you have been assigned (which you do not already have). That is, in an imaginary industry, a specialist design the structure of an aircraft, other mechanics of the engines and their inclusion in the ship, another the setting and internal distribution of the benefits of the service and the electronics that you command the aircraft . However, in reality, many active groups "organized" (well, in quotes), which operate in a chaotic way opportunities and / or anarchy, where everyone tries to save your work (do their job) without considering in depth the desprolijidades you can leave as a legacy to the working groups that continue in the production chain.energy-soccer-greenenergy-FIFA-technology-

The soccer ball that stores energy

Usually, the correct statement would be: kick a football a waste of energy produced by the players. However, the science exists to break this kind of predictable truths, so now we can say that kicking a ball will cause the player to have more energy available. No, no. Also produce fatigue in them, but after playing for a while may use the stored electrical energy in the kicked ball to load, for example, a lamp, phone or whatever is needed in places where electricity is not something that may be playing. This is the Socket ball, soccer ball

This is the age in which soccer balls are building processes longer than some modern buildings. Are studied, they are thinking, is the test given thousands of properties concerning the game that will participate, and if we talk about football, the care is much higher, but then fiascos occur as large as the world. Within the balls, as well as air, have begun to introduce meters and systems of all kinds await the approval of FIFA to be implemented in official matches, avoiding more fiascos. With this idea, and thinking less about FIFA and Africa, students at Harvard University had started a project in 2008 whose name was Ball Socket. Its role was simple: a ball with the ability to capture and store energy from the kicks of the players.

It succeeded in 2010 and there began the real development taking solidarity ribbons that generate media attention but obviously not financial. Today researchers and graduates have a soccer ball that can give power to millions of children in Africa. Just have to play with him, since this area has a unique design consisting of a mechanism based on a gyroscope inside that captures the energy printed on the leather and makes clean electricity for use in mobile charging, lighting, purifiers water, heating, fans, speakers and more. Water resistant and the most adverse conditions, this concentrates the energy ball as does one of those LED flashlights that are stirred to generate electricity through a wire coil and a magnet. Simple, but in a ball.

As if this way of making small energy sources athletes in your own home, the ball is made of 95% organic materials, which implies a coherence sometimes forget many of these projects. Habiéndola tested in South Africa, energy capture was good, but could be improved. The technical problem was the weight, because the ball socket is a few grams heavier than the official match ball (though it cares little who is seeking his second goal on a makeshift pitch). The soccer ball that stores energy expected to sell $ 60 in a campaign of such purchase and donate, hopefully a lot of satisfaction to the three parts that come together in this great project.



4 - Mathematics and Quality of Materials
You will spend 99% of your engineering career trying to understand how everything is shown mathematically that surrounds the man and his existence. Everything will be associated with mathematics. Since the flight of a fly, the falling leaf of a tree, how credit cards and even how a transistor in an amplifier. Interestingly, of the preparatory period comes when you think everything in your work will always be resolved into a series of black boxes with inputs and outputs that obey mathematical processes you know. In the real world, you learn to know the transistors (Asians) and poor quality that do not respond at all to those who express their sheets, or find that the reliability of the metals you have selected does not match the theory learned over the years . You learn that the materials begin to learn to use, experience failures and many shortcomings that mathematics can not explain.

You may not get to use them in most of the work you are assigned, or you feel very frustrated to find that, who is on the other side of the counter, has no idea of ​​the absolute value of each magnetic permeability ferrite core is in the store, who only knows that one is 4C65, another is T100 and the other ... is not labeled. You must learn to recognize the quality of the materials appealing to the senses, as the price of different goods does not always reflect what the data sheets express. How can we conceive that a single transistor cost 4 Euros and there is another model "economic" 1 Euro? What kind of magic did the manufacturer to be cheaper? They begin to discover that your mathematical analysis, quality of materials and data sheets do not always go together. In electronics, usually begin to learn what the temperature, smell and color of the smoke.

5 - Understand the differences between universities and industry.
Some things, however elementary they may seem, are hard to digest when you switch from an academic and a pass to work. It's like falling suddenly in another country, only with your knowledge to be used as tools. The differences are remarkable and in many cases, you must have the strength to not fall as soul or feelings of frustration.

Observe the following antagonistic same situation:
One of the key points that can not be part of a simple list, is the subject of earlier intellectual property. Any research, development and discovery in a university is an academic achievement and social merit very important for the institution. This will give recognition in society, give them access to government benefits in appreciation for his contribution to science of a nation and many other benefits and / or awards that mean "good things" for the house of studies. Quite the contrary, the industry-wide trade secrets, intellectual property of every idea, every project you are working under a strict trade secret, completely changes the experience of joy and excitement to share a find. In industry, a successful discovery means a patent and that leads to working capital for the company. Disclose such information, without control or shelter, can create serious problems in our future work.

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