Over the past few years I have actually developed a different skill set than most engineering majors. I added the business minor during my sophomore year, so I was introduced to the principles of accounting and finance at a pretty thorough level. I studied financial accounting (vs. managerial accounting) which taught me how to organize a companies’ finances for presentation to stakeholders. I also studied finance which taught me how to evaluate the time value of money given variables such as initial investment, inflation, and rate of return. Although I haven’t gotten a tremendous amount of use from this knowledge so far, I see it being quite useful once I enter the workforce next year.
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This Semester’s Students
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Abdulrahman Nashawi
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Austin Maes
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Austin Ross
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Benjamin Chang
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Benjamin Robles
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Brooke Shade
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Charles Keely
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Christopher Lehr
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Davis Butte
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Davis Robertson
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Daniel Straub
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Emily Jordan
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Ethan Elshyeb
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Fiona Bell
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George
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Hailee Pritchard
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Hannah Walsh
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Isabella Colosimo
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Jason Fontillas
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Jamie Frankel
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Jackson Hootman
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Joseph Knapp
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Justin Engbrecht
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Justin Lim
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Kaiya Wahl
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Kensue Kiatoukaysy
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Kevin Yang
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Mary Rahjes
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Miles Radakovitz
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Nathaniel Wang
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Nicole Leon-Molina
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Noah Verspohl
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Patrick Bodine-Ellison
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Paul Tapsall
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Max Armstrong
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Rhys Rueffert
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Ryan Weatherbee
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Thomas Buckholtz
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Victoria Rios
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Will Tse
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Xiang Luo
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Zach Aldrich
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Jean Hertzberg
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I like that you took a completely different approach with your skill sets so you are more well-rounded than many of us! Did you have to do a business proposal project for your business minor? If so, how did that go? I wish that I had taken a similar approach to college. If I have any financial questions, I will make sure to ask you about them!
Wow! That’s pretty cool and unique for a mechanical engineer! I’ll let you know if I need some help with budgeting or anything for my project.