Honors Technical Communication

Course Description

This course prepares engineering and other STEM honors students for the technical writing and related communications they will generate in subsequent courses and professionally. (The growing interdisciplinarity of engineering projects has prompted this invitation to other STEM majors. But note that this course teaches communication topics generically - not specialized terminologies, document types, or writing styles.) Writing skills emphasized in the course include finding and properly using technical research sources, responding to the needs of diverse audiences, ensuring accuracy and clarity, and automating documents for efficient maintainability. Students are encouraged to put extra effort into their self-designed main paper to increase its value as a professional writing sample and perhaps even for publication. The course also readies students for responsible professional practice by having them analyze relevant news developments, project impacts, and ethical challenges.

Code

ENGR 2996

Credits

3

Subject

ENGR

Programs That Include This Course

• Bachelor's Bioengineering, BSBIOE with Cellular Engineering Concentration
• Bachelor's Bioengineering, BSBIOE with Engineering Devices Concentration
• Bachelor's Bioengineering, BSBIOE with Pre-Health Concentration
• Bachelor's Civil Engineering, BSCE
• Bachelor's Civil Engineering, BSCE with Cooperative Education Program Concentration
• Bachelor's Civil Engineering, BSCE with Environmental Engineering & Cooperative Education Program Concentrations
• Bachelor's Civil Engineering, BSCE with Environmental Engineering Concentration
• Bachelor's Construction Engineering Technology, BSCET
• Bachelor's Construction Engineering Technology, BSCET with Cooperative Education Program Concentration
• Bachelor's Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSECE with Bioelectrical Engineering Concentration
• Bachelor's Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSECE with Computer Engineering Concentration
• Bachelor's Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSECE with Electrical Engineering Concentration
• Bachelor's Engineering Technology, BSET
• Bachelor's Engineering Technology, BSET with Mechanical Engineering Technology Concentration
• Bachelor's Environmental Engineering, BSEnvE
• Bachelor's Industrial and Systems Engineering, BSISE
• Bachelor's Mechanical Engineering Technology, BSMET
• Bachelor's Mechanical Engineering, BSME
• Bachelor's Mechanical Engineering, BSME with Cooperative Education Program Concentration