My Career, My Career Interest, and the Value of a College Education
Abstract
My career path has been chosen for me through heredity, as my length of time on Earth has been pre-determined by the Great Creator. How I choose to use this time will be referred to as my success statement of life. How I am remembered will depend on what I accomplish. In short, life is given, but not guaranteed. We all have the choices before us, which determine if life is easy or difficult. Many times, I had the option of all or nothing, and for some reason chose all every time. In this paper, I will explore my present career as a manufacturing engineer, a career interest as a plant manager, and the value of a college education to organizations, customers,
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Thus, became my interest in manufacturing or industrial engineering, later to become expanded and named manufacturing engineering by many organizations. Educational institutions originally concentrated on teaching Industrial Engineering Technology, which included the analysis and application of methods, equipment, and standards for the labor input to manufacture any product, along with capital improvements applicable to reduce cost, improve quality, and provide dependable delivery schedules. Frederick W. Taylor originally developed the program, which evolved into current Industrial Engineering Technology and practices, in the early 1900’s. He was known as “The Father of Scientific Management.” As Kanigel concludes, "[Taylor] was alive to the power of scientific method, doggedly in search of experimental truth; but he was not above shading facts or omitting inconvenient details" (Kanigel 1997, 275). But he was never a common laborer.
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