Student Objective & General Education Component

Name

David Orona

Date 3-3-16

Section A

Student Objective Questions:

1.

What are your short/long term goals (academic, career, & personal)?

2.

Describe how the courses will help you to develop as a professional engineer.
As an electrical engineer, I feel it is within my interests to complete college with a degree I find satisfying.

College is a wonderful experience for the growing individual, and to rush that into a major I do not particularly care for to
a pursue a field that is of little interest is rather pointless for me. This is the main reason why I switched from mechanical
engineering; it was a major I found excessively difficult and rather uninteresting. On a longer-term basis, I want to find a
job within Iowa that allows me to make a decent income while at the same time providing me with the freedom to express
my thoughts and ideas. Though I know life is much bigger than just Iowa, I have family and friends here that I feel are
worth sticking around for. Whether this changes in the future is up to future events.

For the most part, my main interests, besides electrical engineering, lie mostly within history related material.
This is the primary reason behind why most of my general education courses are history-related. It is passion that goes
down deep within me that even expands beyond the classroom with random projects I pursue. It is also field I am
comfortable with. After all, why not use my talent of memorizing numbers to my advantage? History truly is a field that is
right for me, and even though I have looked into other categories such as philosophy and economics, it is a special.

Besides my personal reasons for enjoying history, it is also a tool that can be used within the industry if done
right. Many of todays new technology surprisingly takes a page out of ideas of the past. For example, rain collection
systems that gather the falling rain and allow the user to repurpose that water are based on ideas from even one hundred
years ago. Similarly, John Deere, a company I wish to work for, often takes their products from decades ago and finds a
way to make them more efficient for the current market. In doing so, they provide a new option for the lower income
farmers. In utilizing all of these ideas, it shows the past is not pointless. In taking history, it not only provides a method to
understand the past, but to learn from it and develop it. Any electrical engineer can pull an idea out of thin air, but it is
these ideals of the past that will give me support and overall make me a better-informed engineer. This is a key asset that
will be vital in any major company.

General Education Component

Name

David Orona

Requirements are:

1)
2)
3)
4)

Date 3-3-16

3 cr. of U.S. Diversity

3 cr. of International Perspective
6 cr. of 300/400 level courses
At least 15 credits total.

Section A

You may NOT have:

Any Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or
physical sciences course with substantial applied
science Check the Not Allowable GEC Course
listing in your course packet for a complete list of
Non-allowable General Education courses.

International Students defined as those students whose citizenship status is coded N (for nonimmigrant) or
R (for refugee or asylee) on their official university record are exempted from the International Perspectives
course requirement but must still have 15 credits of General Education Electives.

If you have General Education transfer courses ..

Transfer courses can be used to meet your General Education requirement of fifteen credits. Please list on the
appropriate lines below both ISU and transfer courses that can be applied toward meeting your General Education
requirement.
Check your degree audit on AccessPlus in the "General Education Electives" category to see which courses have
already been applied toward your General Education requirements.
General Education Courses Information
Dept & Course
Number

U.S. Diversity:
International Perspective:
300/400 level:
300/400 level:
Other:
Other:
Other:

Soc 235
Hist 202
Hist 360
Hist 361
Econ 101
Hist 221
Hist 2T02

Must total (15) credits

Course Title

Credits

Social Problems
Intro to Western Civ II
U.S. 1900-1945
U.S. 1945-Present
Principles of Microeconomics
Survey of U.S. History I

3 Cr.
3 Cr.
3 Cr.
3 Cr.
3 Cr.
3 Cr.
3 Cr.

Total

21

Transfer
Credit? Yes/No

Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes

Credits