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DIRECTIONS: Respond to the posts from last year's students. 

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DIRECTIONS: Respond to the posts from last year's students. 

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1) Read several of the posts
2) If there are any responses that you agree with, be sure to post a comment under that response and share why you agree.

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Here are some qualities I think a great inventor needs to have:
Curious, Creative, Never Gives Up, Problem Solving Skills, and a Strong Analytical Skill. According to the website https://www.thefamouspeople.com/engineers.php in Bill Gates article, they state, "Bright and curious, he developed an interest in computers while in school and wrote his first computer program as a young teenager." In a lot of the articles, the great engineers were always interested in things.

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Some qualities that a great inventor will have is being perseverant, creative, outgoing and curious. They should also be able to make mistakes and turn them into solutions. One last quality I believe an inventor needs to have is the ability to take negative comments and keep on going. The article states that Jeff Bezos was doubted by others but kept on going. Now his company is one of the most successful in the world. Another successful inventor is named Elon Musk. According to another article, "After the successful sale of Zip2 to Compaq in 1999, Musk went straight into his next venture, an online financial service called ‘X.com’." He was out going and he wanted to keep on inventing.

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According to Google, engineer has two definitions: Someone who fixes cars and engines, or a designer. But the word engineer has many more meanings. Engineers are inventors, designers, planners and builders. Engineering is built on failure and persistence. For example, Willis Carrier engineered the modern AC, which most of us use daily. The creation of the AC was Carrier's number one priority and it took him many years to finally get a working product. Persistence is the most important part of invention and engineering.

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Some qualities of an engineer should be relentless, curious, and they should have problem solving skills. According to https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/elon-musk-5562.php Elon Musk sold his first video game at the age of twelve. Elon earned a dual degree in physics and economics. Elon stuck to engineering and creating PayPal. After receiving his fortune from that he invested 100 million dollars into SpaceX. SpaceX both made things for NASA and their own company. Elon is now working on how to get around to places faster (fast travel).

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Some qualities of a engineer  include: Creativity, being able to talk to people easily, outgoing, problem solver, and confident. Engineers need to go into their job with confidence, In life there are a lot of up sides but there are also disappointing sides. One day you could be at work and your boss loves what your doing, but the next day he could make you start all over again.
Martin Cooper came up with the brilliant idea of inventing a cell phone, which we all can say we are happy about.
According  to google, he said that watching Captain Kirk using his communicator on the television show Star Trek inspired him with a stunning idea, to develop a handheld mobile phone. He and his team took only 90 days in 1973 to create the first portable cellular phone.

Macy Daley

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A quality of an engineer is by his/her perseverance. Thomas Edison was thought a kid that was the exact opposite of a genius, like him trying to hatch an egg by squatting on it. Also, when he worked on trains he had his own laboratory at the bagging area, and set the train on fire. He found a job with the Associative Press, but was fired due to working on experiments during work time. Edison kept on working and invented the light bulb, and became the Wizard of Menlo Park. Also, Bill Gates did some amazing things. As a kid, he bragged to everybody that he'd be a millionaire by 30, but became one at 31! This proved his perseverance to prove the laughing kids wrong. He said this famous quote: "I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft." This meant that Bill Gates had persevered. Always.

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It is very hard to be a engineer because you have to have the patience to test your work and know how to fix them.  I read about Elon Musk and how he invented Tesla Motors and how he also invented Space X.  He is also trying to find a way to make a faster way of travel instead of a airplane that would be cheaper.

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Some of the qualities engineers should have is creativity, imagination, confidence, and motivation. You should also be a very optimistic person. According to NES Global Talent  https://www.nesgt.com/blog/2017/11/an-engineers-imagination-creativity-in-engineering “ Engineering is often a process of problem-solving and reverse engineering. It requires an ability to think outside the box and visualize a number of alternative solutions and scenarios.” You should definitely have a mind full of ideas. As an example, Alexander Graham Bell was tired of sending telegrams so he invented the telephone! I bet no one EVER thought of that invention before, or at least attempted to. He ran into a problem and found a solution. He ran into many problems actually. He wasn’t so successful at first, but now the telephone is the most used technology to call people from miles away.

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A great engineer has sharp problem solving skills. An engineer is frequently called upon solely to address problems, and they must be able to figure out where the problem stems from and quickly develop a solution. For example, in the article, engineers, by The Famous People, "To be a successful engineer one needs to be highly creative and possess trouble-shooting capabilities. Engineering is a challenging profession as engineers often have to operate under immense pressure..."  This means that engineers must be able to work under pressure and not let problems in their design bring them down but to use their mistakes as a way to learn and improve their product.

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To be an engineer means to have good qualities. But what would those qualities be? First of all, engineers have to show great attention to detail. The slightest error can cause an entire structure to fail, so every detail must be thoroughly reviewed. A great engineer also has excellent communication skills. They need to be able to communicate with each other when discussing a product. Engineers are creative. An engineer can think of new and innovative ways to develop new systems or products. They also show an ability to think logically. They're able to make sense of complex systems and problem solving. Engineers make our lives a lot easier, and it's thanks to all of these traits and qualities.

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Some qualities of engineers have are creativity, patience, and problem solving skills. When Jeff Bezos, the engineer who created Amazon.com was a boy, he used to vaccinate cattle and fix windmills, but now he is the richest person in the world. How did Jeff Bezos think of Amazon.com? Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, an online book store, and later introduced features including one-click shopping, customer reviews, and e-mail order verification. He expanded it to include various other items including clothes, CDs, toys, jewelry, watches, electronics and shoes. Now, Jeff Bezos has about 100 billion dollors!

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Some qualities engineers should have is creativity to be able to come up with a design and be able to get creative when changing something that went wrong. Engineers should also be curious so they can try out new things in their designs and come up with new ones to solve problems. Engineers should be passionate about what they are making or it could decrease their effort when making it giving it a less chance of succeeding. As stated in the Bill Gates article, " He dropped out to pursue his passion in computers and teamed up with Paul Allen, a former schoolmate, to form Microsoft." He was very passionate with creating something and it was a huge success. Today Microsoft is the most used computer software.

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Some qualities that engineers should have is being strong mentally like in sport, be creative, do not be shy because in that work you should always think and invent things. And few more qualities is that they should give up because in that work you never get something that you want it to from the first time. And engineers always should be curious always being interested in things learn, read about what they want to make. "Engineers are basically trained professionals who develop processes for and build products, machines and structures. Technique is a vast field, and there are several categories of engineers, each of which is devoted to one area of specialization." As it says in the article of https://www.thefamouspeople.com/engineers.php website.

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Some important qualities of an engineer are to be smart, creative, persistent and hopeful. I think that its important for an engineer to be smart and creative because in order to invent something new you will need to be smart but also have a creative mind in order to come up with ideas. Other important qualities are persistent and hopefully I think that these are the most important because it can't be easy coming up with something new or fixing or improving something and at normally takes persistence and hopefulness.

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Some qualities that engineers and inventors should have is to be dedicated to their ideas and have the drive to continue their research and creation of their inventions regardless of any obstacles they may encounter. According to the article about Nikola Tesla he was so driven to explore his ideas that he sacrificed relationships and friendships and was known to work an average 15 hours a day on his inventions. Another quality for inventors and engineers is knowledge. According to the article about Nikola Tesla he was a child prodigy with an eidetic memory and the only reason he did not receive a degree from university was his obsession with gambling. According to the article about Linus Torvalds he came up with his great invention in his thesis for his Master's degrees from the University of Helsinki.

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A great inventor or engineer has to have some characteristics. Some include as creative, smart, and others. You have to have those qualities to be an engineer. Creativity comes with how you want to do something and what makes it unique and helpful. Without creativity it would be almost impossible to be a designeer with ideas and solutions. Being smart is the most needed quality. HWen you are an engineer being smart is what makes you an accomplished engineer. Smart is very broad though. So many characteristics go into it. Anything can go into engineeing so taking qualities you have a re needed.