scholarly journals Integrated Teaching Of Experimental And Communication Skills To Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Waitz ◽  
Edward C. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Aerospace Engineering

scholarly journals The Sound of Silence?

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 392-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hassall ◽  
J. Joyce ◽  
M.D. Bramhall ◽  
I.M. Robinson ◽  
J.L. Arquero
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Vocational Choice ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Vocational Skills ◽  
Communication Development ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
High Level

Employers often consider graduates to be unprepared for employment and lacking in vocational skills. A common demand from them is that the curriculum should include ‘communication skills’, as specific skills in their own right and also because of the central role that such skills can play in developing other desirable attributes. Current thinking in communication has indicated a split between communication apprehension and communication development. There are indications that techniques designed to develop communication skills will not resolve communication apprehension and that, if an individual has a high level of communication apprehension, these techniques will not result in improved communication performance. This paper compares and contrasts the levels and profiles of communication apprehension exhibited by accounting and engineering students. The implications of the findings are then discussed and the need for further research in the area of vocational choice is identified.

Freedom, Freedom…!

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-341
Author(s):  
James R. Vitelli
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Professional Writing

Whether engineering students should be taught English and the communication skills in separate classes is a problem that has plagued teachers for many years. The author thinks that no distinction should be made between English for engineers and English for other students. The Kitzhaber Report is cited as an argument for anti-separatism and is set off against the views of the separatists. More specific statements are examined through the evaluation of a currently used anthology of technical and professional writing.

scholarly journals Scaffolding the Development of English Language and Communication Skills of Engineering Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5A) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Mimi Nahariah Azwani Mohamed ◽  
Zarina Othman ◽  
Suzilla Jamari ◽  
Nor Fadhilah Ahmad Powzi ◽  
Nurzarina Abd Samad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Language And Communication

scholarly journals Enhancing English Communication Skills among Engineering Students using CA-AVR Methodology

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Masarath Jahan , K. B. Glory Masarath Jahan , K. B. Glory ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students

Engineering Students’ Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Technical Presentation Anxiety

2012 ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Noor Raha Mohd Radzuan ◽  
Sarjit Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Engineering Undergraduates

To work in a global context, engineering graduates must be competent professionally as well as be proficient communicators in English, the language widely used in international business (Lee, 2003). Increasingly, engineering graduates need to learn and develop skills about existing technical areas in order to enhance their competitiveness in today’s global marketplace. The Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council Policy (EACP, 2005) has listed effective communication skills as one of the main competencies that all Malaysian engineering graduates need to master. One of the important communication skills that engineers must develop is the ability to communicate ideas and concepts to a group of people through formal and informal oral presentations. In line with the EAC policy, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has taken proactive steps in integrating oral English communication skills in their curriculum and co-curriculum activities. This chapter aims to examine the correlation of engineering students’ perceived communication competence and their level of apprehension in giving a technical presentation. Questionnaires, adapted from McCroskey’s (1988) Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Richmond & McCroskey’s (1985) Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety, were distributed to 140 final year UMP engineering undergraduates who were preparing for their Undergraduate Research Report presentation. The results of the study have direct and indirect implications to the teaching and learning of oral presentation skills to engineering undergraduates.

Integrated Product Teams at The University of Alabama in Huntsville

2011 ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Turner ◽  
Michael P.J. Benfield ◽  
Dawn R. Utley ◽  
Cynthia A. McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Text Messaging ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Aerospace Engineering ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Senior Design ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
The University ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Product Team

The capstone senior design class in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is taught as a distributed Integrated Product Team (IPT) experience. Engineering students are teamed with students of different disciplines within UAH and with students at universities in other states and Europe. Because of the distributed nature of these teams, the IPT students must use a variety of technologies to communicate. The authors of this chapter found that the students prefer familiar, informal, contemporary forms of communication, including Google Groups/Sites, Skype, instant messaging, e-mail, phone calls, and text messaging for team communication and project management, and reject more formalized forms of communication, even if advanced features are offered. Most importantly, the authors found that the effectiveness of all forms of technology based communication tools is greatly enhanced when the students have the opportunity to personally meet prior to the design semester.

Teaching a Technical Writing and Research Course to Engineering Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Anna-Maria Andreou
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Engineering Programs

Training in communication skills is considered extremely important in the engineering profession. However, educational organisations and most specifically engineering programs and departments have often been criticised for failing to adequately prepare engineering students for the situations they will face in the workplace. This chapter describes a technical writing and research course that is offered as a required course to engineering students and analyses the advantages and limitations of the course pointing to changes in the course development that will enable students to perform successfully as communicators in the workplace.

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