This course is designed to provide freshmen-level students with perspectives, directions and methods necessary to help them pursue successful careers, not only as students at KAIST, but ultimately as responsible and competent professionals. To this end, this course covers: goal-setting method for life planning, strategies for a successful career, and time-management skills; and systematic methodologies for analysis and design. This course deals with the various attributes of mechanical civilization to identify the advanced civilization in which the scientists and engineers drive the main stream. Cultural attitude and technical methodologies are studied to secure the leadership of engineers.