Engineering to Law

Whether we are discussing World War II bombers, the progression of the F-15,F-16 and F-18 fighter jets, or the vector propulsion of Harrier jets, all airplanes spark enthusiasm in my father -- an enthusiasm that I came to share. As a young girl I remember my father telling me about these amazing advances in technology as we strained our necks back to watch the planes fly over the summer holiday fairgrounds. The two of us would make the commute to the local air shows several times on those weekends, just to make sure that we didn’t miss any of the acts. By the time I entered college, I had become more interested in the physics and aerodynamics of flight, which has led me to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. While learning about the jets and planes that my father and I discussed in my childhood, however, I realized that my interests stretched beyond mechanical engineering and included the desire to impact the world through intellectual property law.

As an engineering physics laboratory teacher’s assistant, I spent many hours in the lab teaching various concepts and working with other students. I quickly learned that no matter how well I understood certain theories, I could not help my students unless I could effectively communicate those theories to them. Learning to teach greatly improved my interpersonal skills, which I then applied when working as an elementary school tutor and summer camp counselor.

As my goals evolved during college, I found that mechanical engineering no longer fulfilled all of my aspirations. The skills of communication, critical thinking, and imagination that I was cultivating seemed more suitable for an interpersonal field. One professor suggested that I look into invention law, and when a speaker came to our senior design class and discussed his career as an intellectual property attorney, I knew that this was the ideal career for me. As an intellectual property lawyer, I would have the opportunity to make a difference in the legal sector while continuing to further my interest in industrial and mechanical engineering -- after first receiving a broad grounding in legal theory as well as invention law.

點(diǎn)評(píng)：

總的來(lái)說(shuō)，這片文書(shū)的結(jié)構(gòu)還算合理，語(yǔ)句也很暢順，但是卻在內(nèi)容選材上沒(méi)有很好的利用。 章的題目是《工程到法律》，很明顯就是表明了這是一篇關(guān)于作者如何從對(duì)工程學(xué)的喜愛(ài)轉(zhuǎn)變成對(duì)法律的追求的文章。

原本看到這個(gè)題目會(huì)感到非常的有興趣，但是越往下看卻越覺(jué)得莫名其妙。一開(kāi)始作者就闡述了從小父親和她是如何的熱衷于飛機(jī)，并且因?yàn)槭芨赣H的影響，對(duì)物理學(xué)和空氣力學(xué)產(chǎn)生了興趣，并攻讀了相關(guān)的學(xué)位。但是作者又突然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己原來(lái)并不是那么喜歡與飛機(jī)有關(guān)的工程學(xué)，反而對(duì)知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)學(xué)產(chǎn)生了濃厚的興趣。雖然作者有嘗試把為什么會(huì)對(duì)知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)法產(chǎn)生興趣做出解釋，但是例子卻沒(méi)有選好。作者只是片面地強(qiáng)調(diào)在當(dāng)助教的期間，發(fā)現(xiàn)人與人之間的溝通是多么的重要，但是并沒(méi)有明確的表明知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)學(xué)會(huì)對(duì)她有什么重要的意義。又或者說(shuō)從工程學(xué)轉(zhuǎn)變成知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)學(xué)兩者間的關(guān)聯(lián)又是什么。文章并沒(méi)有做出很好的解釋，而且讓人感到作者所有用的理由比較的牽強(qiáng)。

相反，如果作者可以進(jìn)一步的解釋，如為什么知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)會(huì)讓她覺(jué)得那么的重要，又或者說(shuō)她對(duì)工程學(xué)的了解可以幫助她怎么更好的去學(xué)習(xí)知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)這方面入手的話，或許會(huì)更有說(shuō)服力。因此，這篇文章并不算是一篇成功的文書(shū)。

譯文：

從工程學(xué)到法學(xué)

無(wú)論我們是在討論二戰(zhàn)的轟炸機(jī)，還是不過(guò)改良的F-15和F-16和F-18戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)，又或者是矢量發(fā)動(dòng)的噴氣戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)，所有的飛機(jī)都能使我父親的熱情閃爍 -- 一個(gè)讓我來(lái)跟大家分享的熱情。當(dāng)我還是個(gè)小女孩，我記得我和父親在暑假里全神貫注的看著飛機(jī)在賽場(chǎng)上飛過(guò)時(shí)，父親跟我說(shuō)了許多關(guān)于這些了不起的科技。我們兩個(gè)在那幾個(gè)周末里通常要往返當(dāng)?shù)氐暮秸购脦状?，只是為了確保不要錯(cuò)過(guò)一場(chǎng)表演。當(dāng)我進(jìn)入大學(xué)的時(shí)候，我對(duì)物理學(xué)和飛行的空氣動(dòng)力越來(lái)越有興趣，致使我最終攻讀了機(jī)械工程學(xué)位。雖然在我童年的時(shí)候，通過(guò)跟父親的探討我了解了許多關(guān)于噴氣機(jī)和飛機(jī)的知識(shí)，但是我卻發(fā)現(xiàn)我真正的興趣所在并不僅僅停留于機(jī)械工程上面，而是延伸到對(duì)可以影響世界的知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)法的渴求上了。

作為工程物理實(shí)驗(yàn)室教師助理，我花了許多時(shí)間在實(shí)驗(yàn)室里教授各種概念，并同其他學(xué)生一起工作。我很快的發(fā)現(xiàn)，無(wú)論我對(duì)某些理論有多么深的了解，要是沒(méi)有有效的溝通，我都不能幫助到我的學(xué)生去了解這些理論。學(xué)習(xí)怎么去教書(shū)大大的改善了我的人際關(guān)系技巧，當(dāng)時(shí)我還申請(qǐng)了去當(dāng)小學(xué)的教師及夏令營(yíng)輔導(dǎo)員。

在校期間我的目標(biāo)不斷的發(fā)展，我發(fā)現(xiàn)機(jī)械工程不再滿足我所有的愿望。反而我一直培養(yǎng)自己的溝通技能，批判思維和想象力才似乎更適合于我的人際關(guān)系領(lǐng)域。一位教授認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該研究發(fā)明法，而當(dāng)一位演講人來(lái)到我們的高級(jí)設(shè)計(jì)課討論他作為一名知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)律師的生涯時(shí)，我知道了這才是我的理想職業(yè)。作為一名知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)律師，我有機(jī)會(huì)在不同的法律部門做出影響，同時(shí)也使我對(duì)工業(yè)和機(jī)械工程的興趣更進(jìn)一步得到發(fā)展，-- 在接受了廣泛的法律理論基礎(chǔ)和發(fā)明法后。