Q.2. Write a conversation between you and any two members of your family separately. Please follow the below mentioned instructions
* You can choose any general topics for conversation
* The conversation should be in dialogue form
* Act as an interviewer and draft the conversation
Respuestas
Respuesta:
Entrevista 1
Interviewer: Do you do any research?
Interviewed: Most of my research is education-related. I have a grant from the National Science Foundation to put some CNC machines in the student labs to teach students.
Interviewer: Most of your current grants are education-related though, correct? Interviewed: That´s right, most of them are related to education. But I don´´t have much time in this job now to do that though. I feel that I need to teach with this job, because I need to have that link to the curriculum and the students.
Interviewer: How much contact have you had with industry?
Interviewed: I had quite a bit of contact when I worked as an associate professor. I spent quite a bit of time at the Herrick Labs. I worked with a couple of United Technologies companies, Sikorkey Helicopter and Carrier Corporation, who does refrigeration, Aspera, which is an Italian company that makes compressors, General Motors, and some governmental work.
Entrevista 2
Interviewer: I find it interesting to see that risk-taking is on there. It seemed like that has never been encouraged at GM.
Interviewed: Well, you can´t just go taking incredible risks. They are calculated risks.
Interviewer: When designing a new product, what issues are typically given the most consideration?
Interviewed: Again, it varies depending on the product. First, you have to understand the customer and find a way to give them what they want. You have to get a sense of where the market is going. Take inline skates. They came out of nowhere and now they´re selling four million skates a year. It was a local market in California and they took it national. Being able to see needs is very important and having the creativity to know how to meet them is the hard part.
Interviewer: Is the procedure for process development similar to that for products?
Interviewed: Yeah, I´d say they´re similar. You need to do some benchmarking on what´s out there to see where you stand and brainstorm to find what you can do.