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A 10-year working partnership between engineering instructors and communication instructors for a course called “Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biomedical Process” aims to enrich the professional skills of the engineering students overall. This paper provides a window to the ways the course aids students in improving their engineering/technical writing and presenting skills. This year,...
A new partnership between the Engineering Communications Program and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has created promising results in student engineering and communication self-efficacy. We highlight here the pedagogical underpinnings, current data-driven findings, and reflections and insights from two students involved in this promising inter-departmental cooperative effort.
While there is a plethora of research and inquiry into STEM and diverse populations at the university level, we have found a dearth of solid, introspective, thoughtful advice on how to handle actual classroom/team and research lab interactions such that diversity is at the core of the working experience. We have found that as instructors, leaders of engineering labs, and research managers at both...
This workshop will focus on helping researchers develop project proposals for submission to internal funding pools as well as external agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Engineering Information Foundation, and similar relevant organizations.
This book focuses particularly on the needs for preparing presentations for engineering and technical topics and audiences. It is written in a constructive manner, with criticisms of default-structured practices tempered with an understanding of complexities of technical and engineering contexts. Readers from different audiences can also appreciate how the book is organized and presented in terms...
Students entering university-level engineering programs must be adept at spatial visualization and reasoning. The Cornell University Engineering Success (CUES) program used the NSF ENGAGE curriculum to introduce spatial visualization basics through an innovative project-based course to a select group of first year students. Students in the course were chosen to participate based on multiple background...
Given the range and complexity of ethical dilemmas arising in professional workplaces, engineering educators attempting to bring elements of ethics instruction into their courses and majors must convince undergraduates that discussion cases used for in-class reflection represent reality in the working world. To support this teaching approach, it is often useful to pull in evidence and voices from...
Within technical and engineering communication, this paper specifically frames the concept of microgenres and locates them within the well-established and now international field of genre studies. It describes a methodology for identifying microgenres and presents the promising early results related to the possibility of mapping these microgenres within a corpus of student texts produced for a writing-intensive...
In the complex world of engineering work, whether on the job or at school, communication tasks often suffer from the same constraints as any project: time, money, and quality all strain the communicator. Too often, engineering presentations do not get the attention that they deserve from their creators, and this allows for information loss, misunderstandings, and problematic use of the slideware files...
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