Preparing for an

Engineering Career
SUBJECT: BES112 (ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING ORIENTATION)
PREPARED BY: FELN LILY F. CANONIGO, MEP-ECE
Transition from High School to COLLEGE
According to Chronicles of Higher Education, only 5% of the students who
graduate with BS degree graduates are engineers. (ELITE)

Keep in mind that what you do for the next four or five years will affect
you for the rest of your life.

You must take the responsibility for learning; nobody can make you learn.

Therefore, you may need to develop some new habits and get rid of
some of your old habits in order to thrive as an engineering student.
How do you budget your time?
Budgeting your Time
Activity Required Time per
Week
Sleeping: (7 days /week) (8 hours/day) 56 (hours/week)
Cooking and eating: (7 days /week) (3 hours/day) 21 (hours/week)
Gaming and Browsing the internet (3 hours/day) 21 (hours/week)
Personal grooming: (7 days /week) (1 hour/day) 7 (hours/week)
Spending time with family, (girl /boy) friends, relaxing, playing 14 (hours/week)
sports, exercising, watching TV: (7 days /week) (2 hours/day)
Total 119 (hours/week)

Hours per week = 24 hours/day x 7 days/week = 168 hours/week

Daily Studying and Preparation
▪ Read the material that your professor is planning to cover in class ahead
of time
▪ Attend your class daily
▪ Get help right away
▪ Take good notes
▪ Select a good study place
▪ Form study groups
▪Prepare for examinations
Getting Involved with an Engineering Organization
1. They conduct conferences and meetings to share new ideas and
findings in research and development.
2. They publish technical journals, books, reports, and magazines to help
engineers in particular specialties keep up-to-date.
3. They offer short courses on current technical developments to keep
practicing engineers abreast of the new developments in their
respective fields.
4. They advise the federal and state governments on technology-related
public policies.
Getting Involved with an Engineering Organization
5. They create, maintain, and distribute codes and standards that deal
with correct engineering design practices to ensure public safety.
6. They provide a networking mechanism through which you get to know
people from different companies and institutions.
Your Graduation Plan
▪ Know your curriculum (CHED-CMO)
Other Considerations
▪ Doing Volunteer Work
▪ Vote in Local and National Elections
▪ Get to Know Your Classmates
▪ Get to Know an Upper-Division Engineering Student
“I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education.”

—Mark Twain (1835 –1910)

Activity: (1 whole bondpaper)
How do you budget your time for the week? Make a list
of the things you do for the week and the allotted time
for each activity. Does it seem reasonable? Or does it
need improvement? Why?
Make an improved schedule of activity (for one week) by
plotting them in a Gantt chart.
Gantt chart
Time Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun
6:00 – 6:30 List activity List activity List activity List activity List activity List activity List activity
here here here here here here here
6:30 – 7:00