Statement Of Purpose: A Career As An Engineering Student At Liberty University

As an engineering student at Liberty University, I need to strive to be a champion for Christ. An engineering student who is a champion for Christ will need to define his goals for his academic career along with personal goals. He will also create a community of peers and other adults who seek to help him with accomplishing his goals and hold him accountable to living a godly life. Finally, he will need to focus on developing his academic and personal skills to better himself. Currently, I need to clarify my goals, invest more time on campus, and improve my study habits. To bring myself to the level of the engineering champion for Christ, I will need to determine short term goals, actively seek out peers to study with, and improve my metacognition skills. Because I need to be an engineering champion for Christ, I will need to set short term goals so that I have a

An excellent engineer for Christ needs to have clearly defined goals for his immediate future and future career. He needs to create goals for his engineering education which lay out his graduation path along with a term-by-term course schedule. Along with creating a schedule, he must pray about where the Lord is leading him and ensure that God still wants him to pursue engineering. Psalms 127:1a says, “Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (ESV). Without the Lord’s approval of the engineer’s academic pursuits, he will not accomplish anything. Next, the goals an engineer for Christ create need to biblical, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-based. The goals created must keep God first and not violate any of the commands of the Bible. He needs to create specific goals for his future instead of allowing himself to create vague goals. Vague goals will produce a