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The Things One Should Do Before Graduating from Engineering
As you mention you are already in your second year,then you really need to start doing things.Time will run out so smoothly that you won't realize it till it's too late..
1) Try to do very well in your academics : You might not realize at your current stage but Academics are important. A good academics record could help you a lot in case you ever opt for further higher studies. And in case you finally have excellent academics (medal winner etc) you will feel really good about yourself too.
2) Explore the sides of you , you have not yet explored : Try to join clubs events which you have only wondered from far but never actually bothered to actually be a part of . It will broaden your horizon and bring new experiences which will help you to decide what you want out of life in the long run.
3) Make a close group of friends : You will realize life becomes easy and fun with friends around. At your current stage you might actually be making some friends who will continue to be your friend for a long time to come in the future. If possible try to have friends from opposite genders also. It will help you to understand them as person in future.
4) If you are really good at a subject and someone comes for help, help them. It can bring friends closer and help you earn respect. You will feel good about yourself. But BEWARE of some people who relish living as parasites.
5) Do a project : Select a project topic that interests you and dedicate (be truly sincere) yourself to it for a semester. It has the potential to augment your interest to a great level. You will most certainly feel that you actually have done something remarkable. It could also prove to be a very important weapon for your future endeavors.
6)Maintain good relationships with teachers/professors. Try your hand once at being a Professional assistant for a teacher in a subject you like. It's a very different experience to take a class for your juniors.
7)Try being a part of organizing events or other such activity where your people skills are tested and get a chance to be honed. If you have not done such activity before it will be a very welcoming experience. Not to mention you also get a chance to enjoy certain perks that come with such activity.
8)Enjoy as much as you can (without disturbing your academics/projects). You might not get any other time in your life where you are free of responsibility and surrounded by so many people who are almost similar to you in their thinking.
9) The Perfect Job Description: Some people don’t care which company employs them; they focus on a career vision that involves a specific job description. Unless your dream job is uncompetitive, building a career towards it means playing the long game. You have to build the skills, experience, reputation and connections that will eventually make you competitive.
10) The Perfect Company: Some people have a specific company where they want to build a career. If you have a specific company in mind, start looking at the company’s available job listings. Visit its offices if you can. Speak formally to the HR people there and informally to anyone you know who already works for the company. Take the best job the company offers you, even if it isn’t the type of job you seek. Getting your foot in the door of your dream company in any capacity is a great start to your career. If the company won’t hire you, then look for work with a competitor or take a job that builds the resume chops you’ll need to be hired by your dream company.
Ten Books Industrial Engineers Should Read
10) Winning: The Answers
Jack and Suzy Welch
In Winning, their 2005 international bestseller, Jack and Suzy Welch created a rare document, both a philosophical treatise on fundamental business practices and a gritty how-to manual, all of it delivered with Jack's trademark candor and can-do optimism. It seemed as if "no other management book," in the words of legendary investor Warren E. Buffett, would "ever be needed."
9)Industrial Engineering and Production Management I-II
İlhami KARAYALÇIN
Business Management, Organizational Planning, Budgeting, Operations, Marketing Management, Production Planning and Control, Materials Management, Quality Control, Operations Research, Simulation
8)Man
Jeffrey Pfeffer
7)Be the Elephant
Steve Kaplan
In business, there's no standing still. The trick is to become an elephant—big enough to make a difference, healthy enough to withstand financial currents, strong enough to influence your market and smart enough to avoid the pitfalls of growth.
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Erdem GENÇ
5) The Machine That Changed The World
Ames P. Womack – Daniel T. Jones
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.
4) Lean Thinking
James P. Womack – Daniel T. Jones
The authors begin by summarizing the five inherent principles in any lean system:
1. Correctly specify value so you are providing what the customer actually wants
2. Identify the value stream for each product family and remove the wasted steps that don't create value but do create muda (waste)
3. Make the remaining value-creating steps flow continuously to drastically shorten throughput times
4. Allow the customer to pull value from your rapid-response value streams as needed (rather than pushing products toward the customer on the basis of forecasts)
5. Never relax until you reach perfection, which is the delivery of pure value instantaneously with zero muda. (The first part of Lean Thinking devotes a chapter to each of these principles.)
3)The Toyota Way
Jeffrey K. Liker
The Toyota Way is a set of principles and behaviors that underlie the Toyota Motor Corporation's managerial approach and production system. Toyota first summed up its philosophy, values and manufacturing ideals in 2001, calling it "The Toyota Way 2001". It consists of principles in two key areas: continuous improvement, and respect for people
2)The Goal
Eliyahu M.Goldratt
This book is usually used in college courses and in the business world for case studies in operations management, with a focus geared towards the Theory of Constraints, bottlenecks and how to alleviate them, and applications of these concepts in real life. This book is widely used in leading colleges of management to teach students about the importance of strategic capacity planning and constraint management.
1)Velocity
Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, Jeff Cox
Millions of readers remember The Goal, the landmark business novel that sets forth by way of story the essential principles of Eliyahu Goldratt's innovative methods of production. Now, from the AGI-Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox, the same creative writer who co-authored The Goal, comes VELOCITY, the book that reveals how to achieve outstanding bottom-line results by integrating the world's three most powerful continuous improvement disciplines: Lean, Six Sigma, and Goldratt's Theory of Constraints.
The Films Industrial Engineers Should Watch
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
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Edwin Blum (story), Lowell Ganz (story)
Stars:
Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt
Norma Rae (1979)
110 min
IMDb Rating: 7,3
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
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Writers:
Irving Ravetch (screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr.
Stars:
Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman
General Patton (1970)
"Patton" (original title)
172 min -
IMDb Rating: 8,0
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.
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George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young
The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
111 min
IMDb Rating: 6,4
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.
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Stars:
Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan
Something Ventured (2011)
84 min
IMDb Rating: 7,0
Apple. Intel. Genentech. Atari. Google. Cisco. Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. Behind some of the world's most revolutionary companies are a handful of men who (through timing, foresight, a keen ability to size up other people, and a lot of luck) saw opportunity where others did not: these are the original venture capitalists. All were backing and building companies before the term 'venture capital' had been coined: companies that led to the birth of biotechnology and the spectacular growth in microprocessors, personal computers and the web. SOMETHING VENTURED uncovers the ups and downs of the building of some of the greatest companies of the twentieth century, and the hidden dramas behind some of the most famous names in business.
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Stars:
Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, Po Bronson
Inside Job (2010)
105 min
IMDb Rating: 8,3
Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown.
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Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert
Trading Places (1983)
116 min
IMDb Rating: 7,5
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
Stars:
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy
The Wizard Of Oz(1939)
102 min -
IMDb Rating: 8,1
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
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Writers:
Noel Langley (screenplay), Florence Ryerson
Stars:
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
House of Strangers (1949)
101 min
IMDb Rating: 7,5
In New York, after seven years in prison, the lawyer Max Monetti goes to the bank of his brothers Joe, Tony and Pietro Monetti and promises revenge to them. Then he visits his lover Irene Bennett that asks him to forget the past and start a new life. Max recalls the early 30s, when he is the favorite son of his father Gino Monetti, who has a bank in the East Side. Gino is a tyrannical and egocentric self-made man that raises his family in an environment of hatred and Max is a competent lawyer engaged with Maria Domenico. When Max meets the confident Irene, he has a troubled love affair with her. In 1933, with the new Banking Act reaches Gino for misapplication of funds. Max plots a plan to help his father but is betrayed by his brothers. Now Max will see his brothers that have also being raised under the motto "Never Forgive, Never Forget".
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Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Animal House(1978)
109 min
IMDb Rating: 7,6
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those trouble-makers have other plans for him.
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John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce
The Social Network (2010)
120 min
IMDb Rating: 7,8
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the cofounder who was later squeezed out of the business.
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Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Wall Street (1987)
126 min
IMDb Rating: 7,4
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie
12 Angry Men (1957)
96 min
IMDb Rating: 8,9
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
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Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
Up In The Air (2009)
109 min
IMDb Rating: 7,5
With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest.
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George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Barbarians at the Gate(1993)
TV Movie - 107 min
IMDb Rating: 7,4
The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers.
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