ENGRC 3500 Engineering Communications
Course description
Prepares students for important communication activities. They communicate using various types of documents (e.g., emails, memos, problem analyses, proposals, progress reports), give oral presentations, and incorporate graphics in their oral and written work. Students learn how to communicate specialized information to different audiences (e.g., technical and nontechnical audiences, colleagues and clients, peers and supervisors, and in-house departments), work in teams, and address organizational and ethical issues. The course material is drawn from professional contexts, principally engineering, and it generates lively discussion. The class size ensures close attention to each student’s work.
Enrollment limited to: juniors and seniors.
Prerequisites
Two first-year writing seminars and affiliation with a major. Fulfills college Engineering Communications Requirement. This course also fulfills a liberal studies requirement. May be used as free or approved elective, per requirements of the student's major.
Summer 2024: Online course
| Section ID: | ENGRC 3500 101-SEM |
| Number: | 1080 |
| Session: | Summer 6-week |
| Class dates: | June 24-August 2, 2024 |
| Final exam/project due: | Friday August 02, 11:59 PM (see Final exams) |
| Time / room: | |
| Mode of instruction: | Online (async) |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Grade: | Graded |
| Instructor: | Wang, H. (hw472) |
| Max. enroll: | 16 |
| Restrictions: | Juniors and Seniors in the College of Engineering |
| Notes: | On occasion, individuals and teams will meet in a live Zoom session with the instructor. These sessions will be scheduled to best fit the students' schedules. |
| To enroll: |
See Online Learning FAQs. |
Summer 2024: Online course
| Section ID: | ENGRC 3500 102-SEM |
| Number: | 1081 |
| Session: | Summer 6-week |
| Class dates: | June 24-August 2, 2024 |
| Final exam/project due: | Friday August 02, 11:59 PM (see Final exams) |
| Time / room: | |
| Mode of instruction: | Online (async) |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Grade: | Graded |
| Instructor: | Mozafari, C. (cnm48) |
| Max. enroll: | 16 |
| Restrictions: | Juniors and Seniors in the College of Engineering |
| Notes: | Mostly asynch, online. Some team meetings will happen over Zoom, at a common open time to be arranged. |
| To enroll: |
See Online Learning FAQs. |