Did your time at McPherson College meet the expectations you had beforehand? What do you feel you gained (personal, educational, skill development) during your time at McPherson College? What do you feel you have gained (personal, educational, skill development) after your time at McPherson College?

Engineer to Win (Carroll Smith)

Reflection Paper

Options for Reading:

• Car Guys vs. Bean Counters (Bob Lutz)
• Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography (Rinsey Mills)
• DeLorean (John Z. DeLorean)
• Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile (Philip S. Egan)
• Engineer to Win (Carroll Smith)
• Glory Days: When Horsepower and Passion Ruled Detroit (Jim Wangers)
• Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story (Michael Moritz and Barrett Seaman)
• Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire (Richard Bak)
• Charles F. Kettering: A Biography (Thomas Boyd)
• Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry that Divided America (James P. Duffy)
• My Forty Years with Ford (Charles E. Sorensen)
• On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors (J. Patrick Wright)
• The Custom Body Era (Hugo Pfau)
• The Birth of Chrysler Corporation and Its Engineering Legacy (Carl Breer)
• Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagon Beetle (Andrea Hiott)

Topics to include (but not limited to):

Did your time at McPherson College meet the expectations you had beforehand?

What do you feel you gained (personal, educational, skill development) during your time at McPherson College?

What do you feel you have gained (personal, educational, skill development) after your time at McPherson College?

In what ways did you find your college classes helpful in preparing you for your time after McPherson College?

In what ways could your classes have been better in helping you prepare?

What career goals did you have upon starting at McPherson College? Did those change during your time and afterwards?