Recipe to be a successful engineering student.

Ingredients

Good communication skills

Teamwork

Technical competence

Creativity

Leadership skills

Method

Sift equal amounts of good communication skills, teamwork, technical competence and creativity into a mixing bowl. Add a dash of leadership skills and serve while hot.

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Engineering, like any other career field requires certain traits for one to be successful. Engineering students should possess certain characters for them to be competent in the field. I mentioned in an earlier post that engineers design and create anything that does not exist naturally. It is important therefore for practicing engineers to be creative so that they come up with means and ways that make life easier and put safety of people first. Good engineers have the ability to work in a team environment. They consider each other’ s ideas and understand that “ united they stand and divided they fall”. Effective engineers are able to communicate their ideas to team members and clients. They should also be able to listen to other engineers’ and clients’ ideas so as to come up with  better solutions. Engineers strive to make things faster, better, smaller and lighter and hence engineers should be technically savvy so as to be able to figure out how all these changes can come about. To be an effective engineer one should have leadership skills. This means one should be able to rise to the occasion and take action when there is need to. An engineer should also be able to inspire and influence his/her fellow colleagues.Engineers cannot master all these skills but they are knowledgable about these skills and try their best to apply them in different situations and projects.

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Works cited

"What Skills Do I Need to Develop to Become an Effective Engineer?" TryEngineering Today. N.p., 18 Sept. 2013. Web. 18 Oct. 2015. <http://tryengineering.org/ask-expert/what-skills-do-i-need-develop-become-effective-engineer>.