Changing Course: Collaborative (Re)Design of an Engineering Communication Curriculum

E. Brumberger, Allison Ellsworth
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This paper presents preliminary findings of a project focused on strengthening engineering students’ communication abilities to better prepare them for the demands of their future workplaces. The project has several distinct but interconnected pieces, beginning with the assessment of a required engineering communication course. The assessment data revealed that the course is falling short in several areas. Recommendations to the program leadership included not only revising the course but also gathering additional data to determine whether students are graduating with the communication skills they will need to be successful professionally. The second phase of the project entails a survey of practitioners who comprise the industry advisory board for the engineering school—the first of several additional data collection points to identify curricular needs and how we might best address them. The board is very engaged with the school’s programs, sponsors capstone projects, and hires numerous program graduates. The survey gathers board members’ perspectives on the communication strengths and weaknesses of graduating seniors and recent graduates; it also collects information regarding new communication trends board members may be seeing in their workplaces, trends that engineering programs would want to incorporate into their pedagogy and curricula.
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变化的课程:工程通信课程的协同(重新)设计
本文提出了一个项目的初步研究结果,该项目旨在加强工科学生的沟通能力,以更好地为他们未来工作场所的需求做好准备。该项目有几个不同但相互关联的部分,首先是对必修工程通信课程的评估。评估数据显示,该课程在几个方面存在不足。给项目领导的建议不仅包括修改课程,还包括收集额外的数据,以确定学生毕业时是否具备了他们在专业上取得成功所需的沟通技巧。该项目的第二阶段需要对组成工程学院行业顾问委员会的从业人员进行调查,这是确定课程需求以及我们如何最好地满足这些需求的几个额外数据收集点中的第一个。董事会积极参与学校的项目,赞助顶点项目,并雇佣了许多项目毕业生。这项调查收集了董事会成员对即将毕业的大四学生和应届毕业生沟通优势和劣势的看法;它还收集有关董事会成员在工作场所可能看到的新交流趋势的信息,这些趋势是工程项目希望纳入其教学方法和课程的。
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