On Thursday the 26th of November the Pasadena Team went on a field trip to a local engineer firm, known as TTG (TMAD, TAYLOR, GAINS.) As a group we were introduced to two specialists in their field a Mechanical Engineer and an Electrical Engineer. You could tell that both the engineers when they talked about their past education and job experience were passionate about their career and loved what they were doing. The Mechanical Engineer had majored as an Aerospace Engineer, but became licensed to engineer and design buildings. This was because the Mechanical Engineer found it rewarding to have a finished product and in aerospace engineering many project designs never make it to space and there is a slim chance of seeing a finished product. On the other hand the Electrical Engineer had lived in India and his family had all majored as Anesthesiologists and he went for his dreams to become an Electrical Engineer and not follow in the same footsteps as his family. After the Electrical Engineer moved to the United States and got his license in California; and he loves working at his job and all the positive rewards you get as an engineer. Both the engineers when introducing there company spoke of how there office is becoming more sustainable with new renewable energy, and wanted to show us how they are contributing to renewable energy by having us fill out a the sustainability scavenger hunt paper on labeled renewable energy items throughout our guided tour. After meeting with the two engineers we went on our guided tour of the building. One of the most interesting features about the building was the way it was designed in angle to promote community and communication from all the engineers' office spaces and the head corporate offices. At one our stops on the guided tour we met a civil engineer and he had showed us how he designs air filtration systems and plumbing systems using computer drafting programs in both 2-D and 3-D. The Civil Engineer had also explained that based on the number of maximum occupancy of the building influences the designing of the air and plumbing systems in order to meet the needs of the users properly. What I took out from this ACE Mentorship meeting was the fact that being passionate about your career can influence your work efforts and becoming an engineer is tough path but once you are there you are using problem based skills to solve certain circumstances to work alongside your colleagues and to make the project function as a whole.
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