Question

1. Design Professionals
   1. What do design professionals get paid for?
   2. Do they produce a product? Do they provide a service? If so, what is it/are they? Be specific in explaining your position.
   3. What do construction professionals get paid for? Be specific in explaining your position.
2. In order to be successful, the practicing design professional must provide a valuable service (Technical Expertise) and make money whjile doing so (Profit). What is more important Profit or Technical Expertise? Take a position and support your position.
   1. If you were to select Profit, explain your answer.
   2. If you were to select Technical Expertise, explain your answer.
3. After reading the article, Marketing Basics for Civil Engineers, find a website for a design firm you would want to work for. Analyze the three Cs and four Ps for that firm. Submit the link to the firm along with your analysis.   
4. How does a design firm get work? Provide 3 methods and explain why you selected these methods and how they would help a firm obtain work.
5. As you enter the profession, will you have any responsibilities for marketing? Be specific in explaining your position.
6. Go online and find an entry level position. For your answer to this question, submit the job description and company for the position you found. Prepare and submit (as part of your homework) your cover letter that would accompany your resume when you apply for this position. We are not asking you to apply for the position you identified, but to go through the process of preparing a cover letter as if you were applying.
7. Prepare your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for one of the following scenarios that your interviewer/potential client will remember you by. Keep it to less than three lines, approximately 30 seconds. BE PREPARED TO STAND UP AND READ IT IN CLASS/ZOOM (Everyone will participate)
   1. You are graduating with your bachelors degree in less than a year. You have applied for entry level positions in your discipline. There are numerous other candidates for this position. You have to distinguish yourself from the other candidates.
   2. Imagine yourself several years into your career. You have started attending industry events where you have the opportunity to interact and meet new people and perspective clients. You see someone from a company/agency that your firm has been attempting to add as a client. You see this as an opportunity to help your company make inroads with this potential client. How are you going to ?introduce yourself and make a memorable impression?

Answer 1

Q. 1 What do design professionals get paid for?

Answer:- Design professional are technical advisor in a specifi field who provide technical expertise to the parties who hire them for consultancy. For example Structural Engineer, Construction Project Manager and Architect etc.

Q. 2 Do they produce a product? Do they provide a service? If so, what is it/are they? Be specific in explaining your position.

Answer. Design professional provides technical consultancy services. For example Structural Design of a project, Computer Programming Services, Architectural services, Mechanical Design services and Thermal Design Services.

Q.3 What do construction professionals get paid for? Be specific in explaining your position.

Answer:- Construction Proffesional i.e. Structural Designer/Engineer, Architect and Construction manager etc. are paid for their services for construction projects. Structural engineer provides strutural design of a building or structure, Transportation Engineer provides road design and embankment design and Soil Engineer provides Foundation design. Architect provides Architectural services for building or structure or any monument. Construction manager provides their services in execution of construction activity.

Q. 4. In order to be successful, the practicing design professional must provide a valuable service (Technical Expertise) and make money whjile doing so (Profit). What is more important Profit or Technical Expertise? Take a position and support your position. If you were to select Profit, explain your answer. If you were to select Technical Expertise, explain your answer.

Answer:- As an Design professional a person have ethical duty to provide Technical Expertise with his full efficiency and without any personal favour. A design professional have ethical duty to provide every expertise keeping in view public interest. Design professional should keep his duty always ahead of his profit. Although all the human being earns for their living but for better work design professional would get better amount of earning. But design professional must not look into profit only. He should keep in mind best quality of work ahead of profit to be earned.