ENGRC 3026 - Engineering Presentations and Expert Presence

Fall, Spring. 1 credit. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: two First-Year Writing Seminars and major affiliation. Enrollment limited to: EN and BEE seniors or permission of instructor. Satisfies the College of Engineering’s engineering communication requirement.

T. Nathans-Kelly.

As a technical contributor or expert, engineers are called on frequently to give presentations (proposals, technical updates, progress reporting, client pitches, engineering advancements/information, and more). However, many presenters have not had specific training about planning, preparing, honing, executing, documenting, and archiving their presentation work; this course addresses those skills. As well, issues of cross-cultural communication, institutional need, audience assessment, and personal presence will be covered. Students should expect to align their work and presentations in this class with a major project in their field. Students will give both individual and team talks.

Outcome 1: Oral Communication/Presentations: Plan, devise, formulate, design, and report information via professional presentations for various technical and stakeholder needs.

Outcome 2: Written Communication: Identify, research, negotiate, and compose various texts to further a technical or engineering effort with consideration to context and audience; use writing and planning skills to support presentation work both for the talk itself and as archival legacy documentation.

Outcome 3: Visual and Multimodal Communication: Visualize, illustrate, and appropriately caption visuals; discriminate between methodologies for creating visuals other multimodal artifacts to support the technical endeavor; create visuals and multimodal artifacts that are accessible.