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ESCAPE 2008 Conference Website Presentations and Resources
Program Overview Engineers must be able to
communicate. Recent surveys conducted by professional engineering societies and
programs confirm that practicing engineers regularly spend between 55% and 70%
of their time engaged in active, on-the-job communication. And, at the local
level, veteran MSU engineering professors routinely report that the premier
complaint from industry and graduate academia about MSU engineering graduates
is poor communication skills. What does this mean for an engineer's education?
Simply put, no matter what core engineering skills students master, such skills
mean little unless these fledgling engineers can effectively communicate what
they know in a variety of settings.
The Mississippi State University Bagley College of Engineering's Shackouls Technical Communication Program (TCP) exists to prepare engineering students for the writing and speaking situations they will face as working engineers. Begun in 1999, the TCP chiefly consists of three related efforts: |
Technical Communication Program _______________________ Technical Communication Precepts
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