Beyond binary: Technical communication skills and the knowledge student

Abstract

Traditional forms of tertiary level engineering education are insufficient to meet the needs of the knowledge student. A multi-disciplinary approach needs to be adopted as the knowledge worker requires a new set of skills, key of which is the technical communication skills set. Through a case study of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the West Indies, this paper highlights one such course which seeks to teach these new skills and recommends ways in which a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering education can be achieved in an environment of limited resources.