A community is essentially a group of
people acknowledging a certain commonality between them. Additionally, the
members of a community tend to communicate with each other and occasionally
meet each other for official or social events. One of the key factors that
makes a community is a central leadership which is responsible for managing the
functionality of the group.
The community I chose to address for
the purpose of this project is an on-campus organization at Purdue that I am
deeply involved with: The National Organization for Business and Engineering.
It is an organization devoted to giving engineering students a background in
and an idea of management and entrepreneurship. It also works to give students
in the Krannert School of Business at Purdue an idea of the engineer’s mindset
and thought process. It does this by helping members communicate with one
another through various community-organized events. On a more professional
level the society organizes talks, infosessions, seminars and case-studies for
members with various large organizations including DOW Chemicals, General
Electric and Arcelor-Mittal. At the same time we have social get-togethers with
other like-minded organizations on campus.
Over the course of this project I intend to use
the brochure and public service announcement to divulge this information as
efficiently as possible to current and perspective members of the Purdue
chapter of NOBE. Along with expanding membership on a local level we are also
trying hard to increase the ‘national’ aspect of this community by getting more
schools to join the initiative by either converting existing local
organizations in their institutions or by encouraging them to create new
student-run organizations of this form. I hope to also include that information
in the PSA I create.
Being an engineering student coming from a
family with a strong business and commerce background, I find it in my nature
to see business and engineering as one. And as an active executive board member
of this community I also feel that it is my responsibility to spread the
message that this organization is attempting to propagate.
I did not even know that this organization existed at Purdue though I am not surprised. It sounds very interesting and it definitely seems helpful for people who want to double major or just want to see how other students of other majors think. Being what I think are two of the most demanded majors today, I think that this community is great. Also, you seem very committed to this community which makes it a great choice for your project.
ReplyDeleteIn your definition of community, I like how you acknowledge that people of a community usually meet each other. I remember talking about the dorm community and how some people may not even talk to their floor mates, let alone ever meet them. Leadership is definitely part of a community, though I don’t think that it is limited to one person. Organizations that are large may need multiple people. However, in order to get goals in line and get a community going, leadership is definitely needed. ENGL 106