Teaching Technical Communication to Engineering Students at Scale

Abstract

In engineering departments, technical communication is often taught by non-specialist academics on an ad-hoc basis. This paper shows the benefits-to students, employers, and universities-of taking a more programmatic view of such teaching. Specifically, we show how more thoughtful design of assignments and the rubrics and markers for assessing these can allow a single technical communication professional to effectively teach 1000 students or more.

Testing the Effects of the Digital Linguistic Landscape on Engineering Education for Smart Construction

“…At present, there is no common definition of internationalized students in the academic field. Thus, this study summarized the international ability of students as intercultural communication ability, cooperation ability, international thinking, and vision, as well as global awareness of international competencies [ 35 , 50 , 51 ]. Engineering thinking ability: engineering thinking is a form of “invisible” consciousness activity, which is a kind of nonlogical and comprehensive way of thinking adopted by engineering students based on the elements of engineering philosophy and engineering knowledge for the purpose of planning engineering entities [ 52 – 54 ].…”

“…At present, there is no common definition of internationalized students in the academic field. Thus, this study summarized the international ability of students as intercultural communication ability, cooperation ability, international thinking, and vision, as well as global awareness of international competencies [ 35 , 50 , 51 ].…”