Claire Chia

  Subject: Self Introduction Dear Professor Blackstone My name is Claire, I am a student from class t6 of your effective communication class. I hope that through this letter you will be able to know me better. I recently graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in aeronautical engineering. After graduating, I worked in the insurance industry for 1 year as I was unsure about my career path. Working in the finance industry made me realized that it was not a career that I wanted to pursue in the long run. Thus, I made the decision to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at the Singapore Institute of Technology. When I was young, I watched a lot of "Air Crash Investigation" on National Geographic and that naturally made me interested in the different types of aircraft. This made me determined to enter polytechnic instead of junior college as attending polytechnic would allow me to pursue my interest much earlier compared to attending junior college. My st...

 " I contend that we (engineers) are undervalued because of our widespread inability to explain what we do to the general public (and why it is so important). It is one of the hardest goals to accomplish, to be able to boil down difficult concepts into a short and easily understood presentation or elevator pitch." -Marybeth Miceli, President, Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, USA (2011)- My interpretation of this code is that engineers find it hard to present their ideas/products to the public as they are too used in using their engineering jargons to explain the ideas thus the general public are unable to understand what the engineers are trying to explain.