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A PORTFOLIO – A
PERSONAL REFLECTION
OF YOUR ENGINEERING
TOOLKIT
Professor Sasha Gollish & Dr John Nyman
MIE 243 Mechanical Engineering Design
September 15 - 17, 2020
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In today’s class …
Discuss (mechanical) engineering careers
Frame your portfolio to suit your desired career path
Connect the engineering toolkit to streams in the Mechanical
Engineering program and the larger group of skills required to be a
successful engineer
Introduce the Portfolio
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What do these jobs look like? 5
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Framing Activity
1. Why did you want to become an engineer or come to
engineering school? What is the purpose of your
engineering degree?
2. What are some of your strengths? What are areas you
would like to improve? We’ve divided this amongst
knowledge and skills; some of these may overlap.
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Examples
Skills Knowledge
Things I have
Things I need to
develop
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Examples
Skills Knowledge
Road Safety Design Engineering Communication
Things I have Highway Design Mathematics Thinking and
Coaching communication
Things I need to Data Analytics
Python
develop
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Examples
Skills Knowledge
Art theory/history
Critical writing
Things I have Grant writing
Not-for-profit organizations
Arts and culture sector
Art installation
Things I need to Property upkeep/renovation Art curatorial practices
develop Finance and budgeting Contemporary Canadian art
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Examples
Skills Knowledge
Things I have
Things I need to
develop
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What is Design?
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Framing Activity - Design
3. Share some of your thoughts on engineering design.
How do you define the following terms?
• Engineering
• Engineering Design
• Design
• Design Process
Do you have any intersectionality with these terms? Where are these
differences?
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Framing Activity - Design
Engineering Engineering Design
Design Design Process
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What is Design?
Graduate Attributes Engineering Strategies & Practice
An ability to design solutions for
complex, open-ended
engineering problems and to
design systems, components or
processes that meet specified
needs with appropriate attention
to health and safety risks,
applicable standards, and
economic, environmental,
cultural and societal
considerations (Engineers
(McCahan et Al, 2015)
Canada, 2016).
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Individual and Teamwork
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Framing Activity – Individual and
Teamwork
4. Share some of your thoughts around teamwork. When
contributing to teams in the past, what have been some
of your strengths and areas for improvement? How did
working in teams change when we went from working
together in-person to working remotely? Consider both
academic and non-academic experiences.
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Framing Activity – Individual and
Teamwork
Individual (Strengths) Teamwork (Strengths)
Individual (Areas for Improvement) Teamwork (Areas for Improvement)
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Individual and Teamwork
Graduate Attributes From the Syllabus
An ability to work effectively As a core design course for mechanical
engineering students, success in your
as a member and leader in graded work is predicated on effective
communication skills (verbal, written, and
teams, preferably in a visual). As well, key to your success is
multi-disciplinary setting. your ability to work effectively in teams.
This year presents a particular challenge
(Engineers Canada, 2016) as many traditional channels of
communication are unavailable. You will
need to learn to effectively integrate your
communication and teamwork skills—
among others—to successfully collaborate
with your peers, and, further, with
machinists, engineers, and other technical
audiences using graphical tools of the
trade, such as hand drafted engineering
drawings and CAD models.
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What is Effective Teamwork?
• quality of the final product
…BUT effective teamwork also means:
• efficient task assignment (the right person does the right job)
• individual skill development and improvement
• fostering creativity (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts)
• mental health and well being
• (sometimes) forging lasting connections for future work and life
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Remote Teamwork Tips
• Focus on psychological safety
• start each meeting with a check-in
• use voice + video whenever possible
• Clear and consistent communication
• Decide on a communication platform/s from the start, and make
changes collectively
• Define how communication platforms will be used (e.g., phone for
emergencies only, texting for short updates only)
• Meet regularly, and define protocols for missing meetings (e.g.,
inform teammates x hours in advance)
• Be flexible!
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Mechanical Engineering Streams
Bioengineering Energy and Environment Manufacturing Mechatronics Solid Mechanics & Design
•Biomedical •The energy industry is •Manufacturing, the •As with our mechanical •Solid mechanics is the
engineers design and one of the biggest in transformation of engineering analysis of stress, strain
develop products for the Canada , dominated by materials and information program, mechatronics at and deflection. It is one of
most complex system on oil and gas, nuclear (technology) into useful UofT emphasizes design. the core technical areas
earth – the human body. power and electricity. products for human You will learn the skills of mechanical
Artificial organs, medical Environmental engineers beings, is the cornerstone needed to design and engineering. Applications
imaging devices, drug play a pivotal role in to many economic build mechatronic of solid mechanics are
delivery systems are improving polluted activities. It is a versatile systems and that includes common in: the design of
innovative and lifesaving environments, designing skill, with employment mechanical design virtually every product;
solutions that arise from facilities that directly opportunities existing (mechanical, hydraulic, creating manufacturing
applying engineering affect our modern over a wide range of pneumatic, thermal), processes and
principles to medical economy, public health Canadian industry, electronic design, equipment; biomechanics
problems. and safety, and designing including automotive, programming skills and as related to medicine
environmentally- microelectronics, their integration into and dentistry; many fields
responsible products and aeronautics, functional systems. of graduate research.
processes. pharmaceutical, etc.
See more at: https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-
program/mechanical-engineering/mechanical-engineering-streams/
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Mechanical Engineering Streams
Energy and Solid Mechanics
Bioengineering Manufacturing Mechatronics
Environment & Design
• Medical devices • Power • Automotive • Designing • Product Design
• Biotechnology generation • Microelectronics complete • Transportation
• Human factors/ • Transportation • Aviation mechanical • Energy
ergonomics • Climate systems w/
• Robotics • Equipment
Conditioning integrated
Design
electronics
• Environmental • Materials
impact/risk • Interdisciplinary
processing
assessment • Mechanical
• Manufacturing
• Electrical
• Manufacturing
• Computer process analysis
Science
See more at
https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-
program/mechanical-engineering/mechanical-engineering-streams/
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Mechanical Engineering Program
See more at:
https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/programs/under
graduate/mechanical-
engineering/mechanical-engineering-
curriculum/
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Mechanical Engineering Streams
Energy and Solid Mechanics
Bioengineering Manufacturing Mechatronics
Environment & Design
See more at
https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-
program/mechanical-engineering/mechanical-engineering-streams/
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THE PORTFOLIO
DELIVERABLE
(You’re probably wondering by now what this workshop
is all about?!)
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What is a Portfolio?
• Provide a link between your cover letter, CV, and your
skills.
• Highlight your best work and display accomplishments,
skills and potential.
• Visually showcase examples of work (on a resume these
are the bullet points, in a cover letter these are sometimes
referred to).
• Provide examples that you include and information you
provide should succinctly lead to a result .
• Acts as proof that you have real work to back up your
resume.
(Snow, S., 2017)
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The Portfolio:
Demonstrating your Engineering Toolkit
• Portfolio demonstrates your skills, knowledge, interests,
accomplishments that your résumé/CV describes
• Get into the habit of documenting your experiences for use in
articulating your professional competencies
• To potential employers, colleagues, accreditation bodies
• In formal (interviews) and informal (job fairs, networking, the elevator)
settings
• What you start in this course will continue
• Documenting work from other design courses (e.g., MIE221, MIE301,
MIE315, Capstone)
• Documenting experiences from outside courses (e.g., extra- and co-
curricular activities)
• Applying for PEY/other jobs
• Becoming a P.Eng.
• Self-reflection builds the portfolio to demonstrate the tools
you're building in your toolkit
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PORTFOLIO EXAMPLES
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Let’s go on a tour of Portfolio Examples
1. https://www.slideshare.net/jmbeck/engineering-design-
portfolio
2. https://portfolium.com/brendanmich
3. www.Instagram.com/run.photography
4. www.johnmassey.ca
5. http://www.polinateif.com/
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YOUR PORTFOLIO
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The Portfolio Deliverable Components
• September 27th at 11:59pm
Portfolio Framework (2%)
• Week of November 23rd in Week 11 Practicals
Mock Job Interview (3%)
• Mid December: TBC
Design Portfolio (5%)
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The Portfolio Framework
• The portfolio framework provides a foundation and a plan
for not just for your final submission but in the portfolio
work you may undertake beyond this course. This initial
step will help you frame who you are and your portfolio.
• This year the portfolio will be framed around the two
competencies Design and Individual & Teamwork,
looking at these through pieces of evidence, primarily
evidence drawn from this course.
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The Mock Job Interview
• Practice interviewing and get feedback from an
interviewer
• Get feedback on how you use your experience and
portfolio to showcase your fit with a job
• Prepare you for creating the final design portfolio
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Your Design Portfolio
Portfolio Introduction
1 to n items of your
Gear Shaft TELS/360 review
choosing
Individual &
Design
Teamwork
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Your Design Portfolio – must include
Design Individual & Teamwork
• A link between hand • How you individually
sketching and SolidWorks contributed to MIE243
group projects -->
dissection and/or
SolidWorks
• Lessons from your team
• TELS or another 360
Review. By November
6th you must tell us what
your team is using.
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Evidence of Effective Teamwork
• 360 review feedback
• Team charter
• Skills/knowledge inventories
• Collaborative brainstorming
• Task assignments and schedules
• Work logs
• Photos and screen captures
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Framing Activity – Your Portfolio
5. Who is the audience for your portfolio? A prospective
professor, an HR recruiter, a senior Engineer, etc.?
6. The one thing I want a reader to take away from my
portfolio is that I am:
All of this is to help you create an effective introduction to
your portfolio. It’s one thing to show us your Design and
I&TW, but we need to know more about you to bring the
portfolio together.
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Some other useful Portfolio resources to
check out
1. U of T Portfolio Basics
2. Wentworth Institute of Technology: Engineering
Portfolios
3. MIE Course & Options Selection Handbook
4. Engineering Career Centre
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Portfolio deliverables in three parts
Portfolio Mock Interview Final Portfolio
Framework
Includes: Includes: Includes:
• Brief statement about • Prep a short interview • Introduction with clear
career path • One competency/ purpose (can be
• Evidence for that attribute section, based on Portfolio
statement including visuals and Framework)
(competencies/ layout • Design and Individual
attributes) • Discourse with your & Teamwork focus
• Plan for final TA on your portfolio • Considered platform,
submission
design/layout
Continue to add examples to your sections soon after
events/dissections/etc. – your memory will be fresh, no missing parts either
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WRAP-UP
