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T148·Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Technical · Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division

Tue. June 25, 2013 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM

Omni - Walnut, Omni CNN Center Hotel

Session Description

As stipulated in ABET’s EC2000, and as has long been pointed out by industrial representatives, communication remains an essential skills for the successful career of all engineers. The papers in this session focus both on methods for embedding communication into the curriculum as students reach the point in their studies where they can benefit from such training, and for pedagogic strategies designed to enhance student engagement with this particular skill-set.

Moderated by Mr. Michael Alley

Papers Presented

Embedding communication in an interdisciplinary project-based upper-level engineering design course [view paper] Mr. John C. Anderson (Northwestern University), Dr. David W. Gatchell (Northwestern University), Dr. Barbara Shwom (Northwestern University), Mrs. Stacy Benjamin (Segal Design Institute), and Mr. John Andrew Lake (Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University)
Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career Development [view paper] Dr. Julie E. Sharp (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Christopher J Rowe (Vanderbilt University)
Insights into the Process of Building a Presentation Scoring System for Engineers [view paper] Dr. Tristan T. Utschig (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jeffrey S. Bryan (Affiliation unknown), and Dr. Judith Shaul Norback (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Engaging and Motivating Students in Engineering Communication with Competition and Prizes [view paper] Katherine Golder (British Columbia Institute of Technology), Ms. Deanna Gail Levis (British Columbia Institute of Technology), and Ms. Darlene B Webb (British Columbia Institute of Technology)

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