[Applause]
we’ll be a little unexpected for some of
you because it’s an engineer who is
known to have nerdy jokes
efficiency optimization love to have
numbers and who doesn’t talk to people a
lot we’ll be talking to you about
communication and this is exactly why I
came to engineering school a lot of
people ask me if you are an engineering
school you will love science and math
since when you’re five not true my high
school was more about humanity social
science political science and languages
and I was able to learn a lot of
different debates poorly like politics
global issues and I was on the debate
team doing Model United Nations mock
trials and a lot of forensics while I
was doing that I was able to learn that
there are so many cool technologies and
innovations but it’s not implemented
well enough because we don’t have a
communication skill that the cool
technologies are not well translated
enough to the public and that’s how I
got interested in engineering and
although I was learning a lot about math
and science I was also able to learn
more about communication I was learning
how to work with different groups of
people I was learning their perspectives
and I also was learning different way of
solving solutions and having different
like systematic way of thinking but
because I’m an engineer I’ll just try to
translate some of the things that I
learned and I’ll start from the problem
statement let’s go with really broad in
general world problems that we’ve been
seeing since when you’re in elementary
school people are serving in developing
countries we are having a lot of
socio-economical inequalities a lot of
natural resources are depleting
disasters and these problems have been
there since like ten years ago and after
decades after we grow up it’s still
there and when we’re discussing those
problems
we realized that we use communication a
lot I myself was using word
communication in the modal United
resolution when I was writing it and in
the last class is all about increasing
awareness creating educational
opportunity having communication and the
words are overused like a cliche that it
almost becomes we just use it without
knowing what it really means and so what
is communication and what’s the point of
it let me give you an example when I was
working with nonprofit organizations in
Korea during my high school I was able
to have a workshop about learning how
the global aids can work more
efficiently and there was this one
lecturer who just inspired me and he was
talking about different donation
platforms and we as you probably all
know there is donate for your sponsor
for your child and you get to choose
your own child and pay for pay fifty
seventy hundred dollars per month to
help them buy food meal plans or books
stationaries and all the basic needs and
you will get their photo their letters
and their names and their situations and
what really happens however is that
because it’s not enough money to make an
enough impact you get to collect 30
people’s money and build an
infrastructure and you make 30 kids
collect gather together in the same
classroom or public area and just make
them copy and paste a template I know it
isn’t inevitable and this is one way of
making the AIDS more efficient however
it was just heartbreaking for me because
I saw this is why I wasn’t committed
enough I wasn’t doing anything more than
just paying $50 per month because of
this missing part and I thought of
different example this is actual letter
from my sister who is nine years younger
than me who’s in Korea and I moved to
new
York City four years ago for my college
and ever since then I’ve been exchanging
letter with my friend my sister and of
course she’s on Facebook I’m friends
with her she’s I can Skype her I can
call a message her all the time but this
letter is so different for me and this
letter is also different from the
letters that I got from my child that I
sponsored and although you’re saying the
same thing that I want to talk to you I
want to share my experiences I want to
meet you it’s just so different and the
missing part was that all the time and
effort and all the emotions that is
compressed into that limited space that
was something that just made this letter
so different from any other handwritten
letters and this is how I see
communication so what I’m seeing
communication is that through
conversation you’re basically creating
an overlap you’re creating an overlap
between your world and someone else’s
world that you’re having a conversation
with and that overlap becomes your basic
common ground for relationship and it
sounds really straightforward that you
are just finding a ground building a
building but how do you do it and those
are some of the elements that I was
seeing while I was thinking about this
question and I believe that
communication and relationship is
connected with different languages and I
want to share some of the examples that
I saw throughout journey to find this
answer to the question so first example
that I was fine out was myself moving
into New York City leaving home is a
huge change and it’s a lot of challenge
but it’s I think it’s more than leaving
the place where you call home for 20
years I think it’s more than leaving
your parents leaving your family leaving
your friends circles but I feel like
it’s more about the things too
rounding you when you walk down the
street the signs are different when you
see buildings they all look really
different the clothing store
stationaries bookstores that you got
used to go to they’re not there anymore
and when you see different street foods
or different things that you get around
the city it’s totally different and when
you’re even when you’re craving for
something spicy they’re not spicy enough
for you when you’re getting in America
so it’s really funny that everything’s
so different but at the same time I was
finding some of equivalents of Korean
culture in New York City so I was able
to find some food that I would think
like it’s really similar to Korean and
was having it and I found my own street
food that I would get when I get back
home so although the language is really
different although there’s a lot of
cultural difference I was able to find a
lot of common ground and I was able to
survive in the city I was able to
sustain myself and this is more of a
literal and cultural site but there’s
something more in difference in language
and I would say it’s indiscipline
starting engineering school it’s
definitely different how you write exams
how you write reports papers are totally
different from back then in high school
when you’re writing your research
culture research paper or your
resolutions are preparing for your
debate competitions the way you
communicate it sounds nerdy but for
engineers math is their language and
their way of communication thought
process is totally different that even
if you are having a same model if your
conditions are different if you’re
making different assumptions if you’re
having different time skills the numbers
will be different there will be two
different independent ideas and even if
you’re in the same discipline let’s say
you’re in conference that’s about cancer
diseases if you are a scientist he or
she will be starting their presentation
about discoveries that they’re making
observations but on the other hand
engineer
we’ll start their presentation with
problem statement how the existing
system is problematic how to make it
more efficient how to make it better
even with an engineering field if you’re
an electrical engineering they’ll have a
different approach if you’re a chemical
engineer you will talk about different
reactor systems and even though you have
so many differences and different
approaches and different questions at
the end of the day you want to cure pure
people’s diseases and you want to make
the world better please you want to
solve problems and knowing that we have
one destination we have same destination
that we really want to go to I think
that really makes us to think as
ourselves as one even if we have
different questions to answer even if
you have different directions and
different approaches and let’s just
imagine that if you are make start
making overlaps with people around you
like friends family members and
co-workers or anyone around you and they
will also start making overlap and then
multiplies and extends and when that
overlap becomes so large that we have
one overlap that everyone can stand on
together and I believe that positive
shift that we are going to get is so
significant and so impactful that I was
really excited to share these
experiences with you got oh and also I’m
really excited to see this overlap
happening here at this place like with
every single one of you thank you so
much
you
[Applause]
we’ll be a little unexpected for some of
you because it’s an engineer who is
known to have nerdy jokes
efficiency optimization love to have
numbers and who doesn’t talk to people a
lot we’ll be talking to you about
communication and this is exactly why I
came to engineering school a lot of
people ask me if you are an engineering
school you will love science and math
since when you’re five not true my high
school was more about humanity social
science political science and languages
and I was able to learn a lot of
different debates poorly like politics
global issues and I was on the debate
team doing Model United Nations mock
trials and a lot of forensics while I
was doing that I was able to learn that
there are so many cool technologies and
innovations but it’s not implemented
well enough because we don’t have a
communication skill that the cool
technologies are not well translated
enough to the public and that’s how I
got interested in engineering and
although I was learning a lot about math
and science I was also able to learn
more about communication I was learning
how to work with different groups of
people I was learning their perspectives
and I also was learning different way of
solving solutions and having different
like systematic way of thinking but
because I’m an engineer I’ll just try to
translate some of the things that I
learned and I’ll start from the problem
statement let’s go with really broad in
general world problems that we’ve been
seeing since when you’re in elementary
school people are serving in developing
countries we are having a lot of
socio-economical inequalities a lot of
natural resources are depleting
disasters and these problems have been
there since like ten years ago and after
decades after we grow up it’s still
there and when we’re discussing those
problems
we realized that we use communication a
lot I myself was using word
communication in the modal United
resolution when I was writing it and in
the last class is all about increasing
awareness creating educational
opportunity having communication and the
words are overused like a cliche that it
almost becomes we just use it without
knowing what it really means and so what
is communication and what’s the point of
it let me give you an example when I was
working with nonprofit organizations in
Korea during my high school I was able
to have a workshop about learning how
the global aids can work more
efficiently and there was this one
lecturer who just inspired me and he was
talking about different donation
platforms and we as you probably all
know there is donate for your sponsor
for your child and you get to choose
your own child and pay for pay fifty
seventy hundred dollars per month to
help them buy food meal plans or books
stationaries and all the basic needs and
you will get their photo their letters
and their names and their situations and
what really happens however is that
because it’s not enough money to make an
enough impact you get to collect 30
people’s money and build an
infrastructure and you make 30 kids
collect gather together in the same
classroom or public area and just make
them copy and paste a template I know it
isn’t inevitable and this is one way of
making the AIDS more efficient however
it was just heartbreaking for me because
I saw this is why I wasn’t committed
enough I wasn’t doing anything more than
just paying $50 per month because of
this missing part and I thought of
different example this is actual letter
from my sister who is nine years younger
than me who’s in Korea and I moved to
new
York City four years ago for my college
and ever since then I’ve been exchanging
letter with my friend my sister and of
course she’s on Facebook I’m friends
with her she’s I can Skype her I can
call a message her all the time but this
letter is so different for me and this
letter is also different from the
letters that I got from my child that I
sponsored and although you’re saying the
same thing that I want to talk to you I
want to share my experiences I want to
meet you it’s just so different and the
missing part was that all the time and
effort and all the emotions that is
compressed into that limited space that
was something that just made this letter
so different from any other handwritten
letters and this is how I see
communication so what I’m seeing
communication is that through
conversation you’re basically creating
an overlap you’re creating an overlap
between your world and someone else’s
world that you’re having a conversation
with and that overlap becomes your basic
common ground for relationship and it
sounds really straightforward that you
are just finding a ground building a
building but how do you do it and those
are some of the elements that I was
seeing while I was thinking about this
question and I believe that
communication and relationship is
connected with different languages and I
want to share some of the examples that
I saw throughout journey to find this
answer to the question so first example
that I was fine out was myself moving
into New York City leaving home is a
huge change and it’s a lot of challenge
but it’s I think it’s more than leaving
the place where you call home for 20
years I think it’s more than leaving
your parents leaving your family leaving
your friends circles but I feel like
it’s more about the things too
rounding you when you walk down the
street the signs are different when you
see buildings they all look really
different the clothing store
stationaries bookstores that you got
used to go to they’re not there anymore
and when you see different street foods
or different things that you get around
the city it’s totally different and when
you’re even when you’re craving for
something spicy they’re not spicy enough
for you when you’re getting in America
so it’s really funny that everything’s
so different but at the same time I was
finding some of equivalents of Korean
culture in New York City so I was able
to find some food that I would think
like it’s really similar to Korean and
was having it and I found my own street
food that I would get when I get back
home so although the language is really
different although there’s a lot of
cultural difference I was able to find a
lot of common ground and I was able to
survive in the city I was able to
sustain myself and this is more of a
literal and cultural site but there’s
something more in difference in language
and I would say it’s indiscipline
starting engineering school it’s
definitely different how you write exams
how you write reports papers are totally
different from back then in high school
when you’re writing your research
culture research paper or your
resolutions are preparing for your
debate competitions the way you
communicate it sounds nerdy but for
engineers math is their language and
their way of communication thought
process is totally different that even
if you are having a same model if your
conditions are different if you’re
making different assumptions if you’re
having different time skills the numbers
will be different there will be two
different independent ideas and even if
you’re in the same discipline let’s say
you’re in conference that’s about cancer
diseases if you are a scientist he or
she will be starting their presentation
about discoveries that they’re making
observations but on the other hand
engineer
we’ll start their presentation with
problem statement how the existing
system is problematic how to make it
more efficient how to make it better
even with an engineering field if you’re
an electrical engineering they’ll have a
different approach if you’re a chemical
engineer you will talk about different
reactor systems and even though you have
so many differences and different
approaches and different questions at
the end of the day you want to cure pure
people’s diseases and you want to make
the world better please you want to
solve problems and knowing that we have
one destination we have same destination
that we really want to go to I think
that really makes us to think as
ourselves as one even if we have
different questions to answer even if
you have different directions and
different approaches and let’s just
imagine that if you are make start
making overlaps with people around you
like friends family members and
co-workers or anyone around you and they
will also start making overlap and then
multiplies and extends and when that
overlap becomes so large that we have
one overlap that everyone can stand on
together and I believe that positive
shift that we are going to get is so
significant and so impactful that I was
really excited to share these
experiences with you got oh and also I’m
really excited to see this overlap
happening here at this place like with
every single one of you thank you so
much
you
[Applause]
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