Extracurriculars for Future Engineering Students

By Ron Britton

Extracurricular activities are of considerable value for those considering entering Engineering. Sports provide experience in the importance of teamwork, and modern Engineering is done in teams. Technical activities, like Robot Games or Formula 1 in the Schools, provide experience in taking an idea through to a physical end product and demonstrating how that product works, in competition. The university experience and life after university is a social environment. Any activity that is based on interacting with people and dealing with the compromises this sort of interaction requires will be of value. Keep your options open. You might just find something that becomes a life long opportunity.

Ron Britton, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, and 3M National Teaching Fellow.

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AmandaBird wrote:	What if your school/community does not offer these extracurriculars? is there other things to do/places to go to get involved?? Posted on Nov 29, 2011 at 01:08

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