Celena Langlois

FABE Professional Development

Lifelong Learning Assignment

1/28/19

When I started high school, I entered an Intro to Engineering class to solidify my choice of major. I then took AP courses to get into a good engineering program at college. After coming to Ohio State, I had aligned myself with the Green Engineering Scholars and the Society of Environmental Engineers. I later that year was involved in TerrAqua to receive water testing training and was involved in a water testing design competition. Since then I’ve joined the engineering social sorority Phi Sigma Rho to better myself as a rounded student. I’ve been able to network and through Phi Rho’s Professional Development chair since my entrance to the sorority.

While I was with the American Society of Environmental Engineering, I had entered a team for the America Society of Civil Engineers Environmental Competition. Essentially, the competition was about filtering out a highly concentrated chemical in the water given to simulate a disaster scenario. We created a gravity power three-tiered system of sand, rocks, and activated coconut carbon to filter out Nitrate and Nitrites out of the water. At the competition, we ended up winning first place and that started my passion for filtration. I enjoy the biological processes of the activated carbon and how the sand and rocks mimicked regular stream filtration. I was able to apply those lesson into Fundamentals of Engineering Class’s AEV Project by having the AEV’s design mimic a bird gliding wings during flight for more stability.

My career goal is to find and carry out a filtration method that mimics the natural world on a faster rate to keep up with consumer demands for freshwater. I would also like to work in watershed restoration for a period of time as well. The environment is also every changing in with the onset of climate change and increased human encroachment into previously undeveloped areas. Since science and our understanding of the world change every day, it’s important for me to continue on the path of lifelong learning.

I would like to take the FE exam before I leave for college and leave the door open for P.E. licensing but I more likely will not take the P.E. Exam anytime soon after college. I would like to continue my education by taking seminars through local institutions and be a part of national environmental science and related engineering organizations. I will also still be linked with my Phi Rho sisters throughout my entire career as well.

Celena Langlois

FABE 3140

2/18/19

h-Engineering Impact

            Engineering is about finding creative problems to solutions using math and science in order to achieve a higher standard product or a higher standard of living. These solutions don’t always apply to every situation as the standards for each region may differ in that region culturally, environmentally, or industrially. Taking a global perspective into design and problems solving can also allow the engineer to draw inspiration from a myriad of past knowledge and avoid difficult social constructs that would be much different than our own.

One of the first classes that inspired me to think in a global sense was Russian Culture (RUSSIAN 2335.99). The class featured Russian history and cultural movements from the early Slavic people to the modern day Russian empire. The historical component of the course allowed me to track the cultural movements and ties to religion and why various political movements occurred in Russia as well as why industrially they fell behind the rest of the world. During Stalin reign in the USSR, he implemented 5-year plans that would completely overhaul both the agricultural and industrial fields of the nation that would have required careful planning and an engineering thought process to properly achieve that goal. This course though showed what happened when engineering doesn’t account for the people it’s trying to help as many Ukrainians starved to death and the civil unrest spread throughout the country.

My Intercultural Leadership (ESHESA 2577) class brought to light the different ways people differ from each other through diversity. Diversity means more than just skin color and where you grew up. There are around 13 different kinds of diversity and the intersection at which these traits meet is called a person’s intersectionality. Understanding the different kinds of people and understanding yourself are key traits to be able to have successful work interactions and could be a key to landing hard contracts later on in life. I took this class specifically because I wanted to work on my interpersonal skills and the understanding the societal and global impact that word can have and how they relate to how we as people define ourselves. Understanding and respecting the differencing between people is the true sign of a good leader and a good co-worker.

I took the History of Rock and Roll (MUSIC 2252) class that tracked the history and formation of Rock n’ Roll as it is today. The course shows the different cultural timelines and how the music of that specific era when either matches the main culture or represent a subculture within the main culture of the time. The music could also speak the different culture movements like the sexual revolutions and the Vietnam war movement. The class also talked about how the difference in music technology and sound engineering defined the sounds of the era, particularly the Beatles.