Engineering to Law

Whether we are discussing World War II bombers, the progression of the F-15,F-16 and F-18 fighter jets, or the vector propulsion of Harrier jets, all airplanes spark enthusiasm in my father -- an enthusiasm that I came to share. As a young girl I remember my father telling me about these amazing advances in technology as we strained our necks back to watch the planes fly over the summer holiday fairgrounds. The two of us would make the commute to the local air shows several times on those weekends, just to make sure that we didn’t miss any of the acts. By the time I entered college, I had become more interested in the physics and aerodynamics of flight, which has led me to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. While learning about the jets and planes that my father and I discussed in my childhood, however, I realized that my interests stretched beyond mechanical engineering and included the desire to impact the world through intellectual property law.

As an engineering physics laboratory teacher’s assistant, I spent many hours in the lab teaching various concepts and working with other students. I quickly learned that no matter how well I understood certain theories, I could not help my students unless I could effectively communicate those theories to them. Learning to teach greatly improved my interpersonal skills, which I then applied when working as an elementary school tutor and summer camp counselor.

As my goals evolved during college, I found that mechanical engineering no longer fulfilled all of my aspirations. The skills of communication, critical thinking, and imagination that I was cultivating seemed more suitable for an interpersonal field. One professor suggested that I look into invention law, and when a speaker came to our senior design class and discussed his career as an intellectual property attorney, I knew that this was the ideal career for me. As an intellectual property lawyer, I would have the opportunity to make a difference in the legal sector while continuing to further my interest in industrial and mechanical engineering -- after first receiving a broad grounding in legal theory as well as invention law.

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總的來說，這片文書的結構還算合理，語句也很暢順，但是卻在內容選材上沒有很好的利用。 章的題目是《工程到法律》，很明顯就是表明了這是一篇關于作者如何從對工程學的喜愛轉變成對法律的追求的文章。

原本看到這個題目會感到非常的有興趣，但是越往下看卻越覺得莫名其妙。一開始作者就闡述了從小父親和她是如何的熱衷于飛機，并且因為受父親的影響，對物理學和空氣力學產生了興趣，并攻讀了相關的學位。但是作者又突然發現自己原來并不是那么喜歡與飛機有關的工程學，反而對知識產權學產生了濃厚的興趣。雖然作者有嘗試把為什么會對知識產權法產生興趣做出解釋，但是例子卻沒有選好。作者只是片面地強調在當助教的期間，發現人與人之間的溝通是多么的重要，但是并沒有明確的表明知識產權學會對她有什么重要的意義。又或者說從工程學轉變成知識產權學兩者間的關聯又是什么。文章并沒有做出很好的解釋，而且讓人感到作者所有用的理由比較的牽強。

相反，如果作者可以進一步的解釋，如為什么知識產權會讓她覺得那么的重要，又或者說她對工程學的了解可以幫助她怎么更好的去學習知識產權這方面入手的話，或許會更有說服力。因此，這篇文章并不算是一篇成功的文書。

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從工程學到法學

無論我們是在討論二戰的轟炸機，還是不過改良的F-15和F-16和F-18戰斗機，又或者是矢量發動的噴氣戰斗機，所有的飛機都能使我父親的熱情閃爍 -- 一個讓我來跟大家分享的熱情。當我還是個小女孩，我記得我和父親在暑假里全神貫注的看著飛機在賽場上飛過時，父親跟我說了許多關于這些了不起的科技。我們兩個在那幾個周末里通常要往返當地的航展好幾次，只是為了確保不要錯過一場表演。當我進入大學的時候，我對物理學和飛行的空氣動力越來越有興趣，致使我最終攻讀了機械工程學位。雖然在我童年的時候，通過跟父親的探討我了解了許多關于噴氣機和飛機的知識，但是我卻發現我真正的興趣所在并不僅僅停留于機械工程上面，而是延伸到對可以影響世界的知識產權法的渴求上了。

作為工程物理實驗室教師助理，我花了許多時間在實驗室里教授各種概念，并同其他學生一起工作。我很快的發現，無論我對某些理論有多么深的了解，要是沒有有效的溝通，我都不能幫助到我的學生去了解這些理論。學習怎么去教書大大的改善了我的人際關系技巧，當時我還申請了去當小學的教師及夏令營輔導員。

在校期間我的目標不斷的發展，我發現機械工程不再滿足我所有的愿望。反而我一直培養自己的溝通技能，批判思維和想象力才似乎更適合于我的人際關系領域。一位教授認為我應該研究發明法，而當一位演講人來到我們的高級設計課討論他作為一名知識產權律師的生涯時，我知道了這才是我的理想職業。作為一名知識產權律師，我有機會在不同的法律部門做出影響，同時也使我對工業和機械工程的興趣更進一步得到發展，-- 在接受了廣泛的法律理論基礎和發明法后。