Professor Hollenbeck

When talking about engineering one can see it as a challenge, but those challenges can be defeated. As for the lecture by professor Charles Hollenbeck, at Chaffey College on August 26 helped, in the sense that he made us envision of what your passion actually is. A quote that stood out when he stated, “Don’t go into a field for the money”. At first thought one couldn't understand why Professor Hollenbeck stated this until he introduced himself. He was a UCLA graduate from the School of Engineering in ‘67. Worked in the Aerospace industry for four years, professor Hollenbeck mentioned that after two years in the field, he was laid off. Which had him thinking and his wife encouraged him to return to school. Professor Hollenbeck when on to state, “physics was [his] favorite subject”. So he went back to school and attended CSU Long Beach and USC for his MS. In the process, professor Hollenbeck stated, “I took a fifty percent pay cut to teach physics at Chaffey”. What one gets from this is, that …show more content…
This is how professor Hollenbeck introduce the creativity aspect of engineering. Professor Hollenbeck did a great deal of research to introduce this question of “how creative are you”. As for myself, I believe that my creativity and critical thinking helps me with the challenges of mathematics (calculus), and problem solving (finding solutions). Moreover, to understand what I mean, as I am currently relearning AutoCAD (took mechanical drawing in high school); when I recently came across a drawing that required imagination and math to get the certain parts of the drawing done. My ingenious creativity help me prevail with the task. Furthermore, as students sometimes no matter how difficult objectives get we are in the process of