My name is Hans Anthony Gerlain, I am 18 years old and a undergraduate college student from New York City College of Technology (City Tech).I entered City Tech because I want to be an Industrial Engineer and a product designer. A product designer is a person who creates a new product to be sold by a business to its customers. A very broad concept, it is essentially the efficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process of creating and finding solutions of having problems with technology that we used today. It will lead to developing new products for to be sold by business. I have several reasons for picking this major, one of them is to design my own brand new products and sell them. I want to share my products with the world and people will able to use them for their own benefits. I want to have my own business company of designing and manufacturing products and to be known worldwide. These products shall change the world which is my goal for the future to help others with their daily lives of using my technology as their own tool and make their lives easier to live.
In my major of Industrial Engineering I want to design products for a living to make something new every day. I will start out by working a company for a company who designs products and has new ideas for technology able to improve our technology that we used today. The 2014-2015 New York City College of Technology Catalog tells about âThe Industrial Design Technology program is designed to provide students with a wide variety of valuable skills enabling them to utilize a number of 2D,3D and animation/simulation software packages in several diverse fieldsâ (City Tech 291).This shows me there are several jobs in this major which are design manager, animation developer, industrial design systems manager, project manager, and most of all industrial product designer. Industrial Designers have to use this program called AutoCAD also use a textbook called Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD 2014 help designers to design their object or product it teaches technical drawing using AutoCAD 2014 as its drawing instrument.Taking a step-by-step approach, it encourages students to work at their own pace and uses sample problems and illustrations to guide them through the powerful features of this drawing program. There are exercise problems provide instructors with a variety of assignments material and students with an opportunity to develop their creativity and problem-solving capabilities.After I graduated City Tech Industrial product designer thatâs what I want to do and have as a job for the rest of my life to design products and to create new ideas for technology. My dream goal is to be Industrial Engineer. I have these ideas in my head that I want my designs become reality and to be different so people in the world can notice of my product designs.
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A Sketch of a Product
In the world people want to see something more from technology and to see something new, unique, and to be different.I want to create the designs of my products and to be sold for business not only to make money but for my products to have recognition and more often to be bought by consumers. The products I design will involve solving the difficulties that people have with technology and to prevent them of having no problems and make the product easily helpful without making things complicated and hard to understand. I want my products to be simple and useful for others make it to be top seller and able to produce more of my products it will be unlimited never to be run out and still provide more. I also want to make a product for each company I want to sell to and able to make more money and produce more of my products.As an Industrial Engineer they work in field but it depends on their duties, Industrial Engineers work both in offices and in the settings they are trying to improve according to the American Bureau of Labor Statistics.US Department of Labor.For example, when observing problems, they may watch workers assembling parts in a factory.When solving problems, they may be in an office at a computer looking at data that they or others have collected.
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It’s not all about money but it’s for the Product
The products I want to sell will expand my business to the world and share my products to people that can be a tool for their own benefits and to be useful .Thereâs a lot of ways for my products to be useful helpinging others whether itâs home, transportation, or work .I want to design a product each of that categories or more but its needs to be simple and useful that the consumers can have an understanding of particular product that they want to buy from me. I will own my business company and in my life finding myself helping people with their own problems with technology. I love technology and it is amazing so many ways, I want to create and build products for people to able to help them if they have problems with technology. I want my product to be patent and according to this book called The Inventorâs Times by Dan Driscoll how to patent your invention âyou can protect your ideas with the help of your governmentâs Patent Officeâ. He also explains that your inventions has to have a purpose and to be unique or one of a kind. If the Patent Office knows that a similar invention already exists then they wonât give a patent. Unfortunately, youâll also have to pay a fee for this and it can be a lot of money but if you created a good invention, it might be worth it.The United Sates Patent and Trademark Office, an agency of the Department of Commerce defines a patent as a right to a inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States”.If someone illegal copy the invention without their permission or stole someone’s invention will be arrested and sued for theft.
In my semester during City Tech, I had a chance to have my interview with my adviser named Professor Andy S. Zhang to talk about my major and he explain about what is the true purpose of Industrial Engineer he says “Industrial designers they design shape of a product and if Industrial companies likes the shape of it they will hire you for the jobâ. He also explain that there is a competition that the companies will only hired designers to see who is the best designer in that field and it means a lot of students who graduated from City Tech with the a degree of industrial design itâs hard to look for jobs and the companies are choosing people who has more skills and more artistic in designing to able to get hired and join the company. When Zhang told me about this it motivated me to work even harder and I want to be the best designer because I want my ideas and designs become reality, and to have recognition of my work.
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The Product
When I own a business company I believe I can achieve great accomplishments that the world never sees. To able to use technology for a good purpose and help the world, make a difference with technology to solve the world’s greatest problems. I believe dreams don’t come true just because you wish for them; you have to fight to make them real. I will able to achieve my dream because I have potential to change the world for the better and to achieve greatness. I want Industrial designers to have that passion and determined to not give up on your designs or your ideas also to provide them with hope and dreams. To able to put your heart and soul to your designs even if you feel like itâs not good enough and failed miserably but you have to constantly keep on trying and never give up. It’s time for you to stop looking at the process it takes to get what you want in life , and start looking at the results when you overcome the obstacles that you struggle with.I viewed the world differently and people in the world need to see a change in technology and I will provide for them. If you passion about designing or creating new products donât let anyone or the world stops you from doing things that you love to do even if the companies doesn’t like your ideas and your designs you have stay positive and be confident. Good things will happen to you if you love what you do then you never have to work a day in your life.
Work Cited
Bureau of Labor Statistics.US Department of Labor. âOccupational Outlook Handbook”. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/industrial-engineers.htm.2014-2015 Edition. Industrial Engineers. 8 Jan. 2014. Web. 1 Dec. 2014
Engineering Graphics with Autocad 2014. .Textbook.22 Dec 2013.Printed
Hans, Gerlain. âA Sketch of a Productâ.Flickr. 5Â Dec 2014. Web 6 Dec 2014
Hans, Gerlain. âIt’s not all about money but it’s for the Productâ.Flickr. 5Â Dec 2014. Web 6 Dec 2014
Hans, Gerlain. “The Productâ.Flickr. 5Â Dec 2014. Web 6 Dec 2014
The Inventorâs Times.Dan Driscoll.How to Patent Your invention(Last Page).Quirk Productions,Inc.Singapore.Printed.2002
The United States Patent and Trademark Office, an agency of the Department of Commerce.http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp.Web Dec 6 2014
New York City College of Technology 2014-2015 Academic Catalog.Web. 30 Nov. 2014
Professor Andy S. Zhang. Industrial Engineer Interview. 18 Nov. 2014.
