Ethical Issues in My Profession: Within the engineering aspect, the major ethical issue is companies selling their data collected from their users to other companies.  However, when the companies to sell our information it is very generalize statistics such as: gender, age group, etc. Still companies do have access to some personal information. Cheetah Mobile…

Today was our last day in Shanghai and our last day in China. To finish off our journey we visited the Yu Garden. The Yu Garden is a Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai. I did not hear too much about the history of…

These companies that we visited today were definitely geared more towards the engineers of the group. This first company we visited was TE Connectivity, fun fact their HQ is located in Harrisburg, PA. What TE Connectivity is manufacture connections like USB ports. The four main processes that they do are plating, stamping, milling, and assembly….

This company visit was a bit different than previous ones.  The presenter, Mac Sullivan, was going to talk to us on the bus ride to the port, since it was a two-hour bus ride. During the bus ride, Mac explained how he was the Greater China Trade Lane Manager for Toll Global Forwarding and his…

At Donghua University, we had another lecture talking about the doing business in China mainly about the phone business, e-commerce, and smart-phones. A lot of what he had to say was already covered in our first lecture, however, I did learn/realize two things. First that a website in China has a completely distinctive design than…

Today was another travel day, this time from Xi’an o Shanghai. However, this time it was a 6-hour train ride, on a train that was going 200 mph. I do not remember much of the train ride because I slept for the whole trip. When I woke up, everyone was looking amazed that I slept…

Before our journey to China, Jordan, our adviser for the trip, showed us a graph depicting the average mood level for any international trip. At first, you are extremely excited to be, and what to see and try any new opportunity. Halfway through the trip though, you will hate the country you are visiting and…

Our first activity for today was visiting the Children’s Village. This program started in the mid-90s by a former police officer. What she wanted to do was provide a home for children whose parents are serving time in prison. What normally happens when both parents are in prison is, the children are to be cared…

The bulk of the day was spent travelling from Beijing to Xi’an. We took a bullet train that reached speeds of 200 mph, and even though the train is moving that fast it took four hours to reach Xi’an. When looking out the window it was funny to see the transition from the urban area…

  Today was our last day with Joe the Great and our last day in Beijing before we take a bullet train to Xi’an. On the bus ride to the city, Joe was going over some of the history behind the Forbidden City, for example, no building in Beijing can be built higher than the…

When we first arrived at Cheetah Mobile, we all noticed the cheetah statues comparable to Google’s Android statues, also the building had a huge yard which seems to be very uncommon in Beijing. Cheetah Mobile’s CTO gave a brief description of what the company does and how it evolved over the years. We were given…

Today we would spend majority of the day at the Central University of Finance and Economics. We attended a lecture, given by Professor Yao, about the smartphone supply chain business in China. Probably the most interesting part was when Professor Yao went over statistics that said ~80% people in China have a smartphone while majority…

To start off the day, we had our program orientation in the hotel. The orientation covered the itinerary of our trip. We will be staying in Beijing for five days and within that time we will visit the Great of China and The Forbidden City, also have two company visits: Microsoft and Cheetah Mobile. We…