Unit Code: COM502

Unit Name: Engineering Communication and Practices

Description: The course is specifically for engineering students. Students will learn to clearly articulate, communicate and relate their experiences from projects and work done in the respective engineering fields or industries. Students will work on case studies from the three engineering disciplines: civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. Tasks will be realistic and contextualized to the intensive engineering projects, activities and direct participation that students are experiencing in the programme. Experienced engineers in civil, mechanical and electrical disciplines from industry will be invited to talk to the students and participate in judging panels for student presentations of their case studies.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Apply to reason informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to professional engineering practice and solutions to complex engineering problems (WA6 – The engineer and society) a. Discuss and comment on social, environmental and technical issues in the given case studies (WA6 – IoA2 and IoA3) b. Write clear instructions and steps on respective procedures relevant to the operation and training of engineering systems. 2. Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions (WA10 – Communication) a. Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with both technical and non-technical audiences. (WA10 - IoA 3) b. Improve the clarity of technical reading, writing, listening and speaking skills of engineering students. c. Understand technical English jargon in technical reports and write-ups. d. Acquire basic technical skills to conduct independent research. e. Write effective technical reports and design documentation. f. Give clear oral presentations on a range of written reports and other documentation relevant to the engineering discipline that convey information effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. (WA10 - IoA 1) g. Presents work verbally clearly and articulately, using visual aids appropriately in a range of contexts (WA10 - IoA 2) h. Comprehend the structure and language of instructions. i. Receive and carry out given instructions on specific procedures. j. Write a bibliography/ reference using the Harvard method. k. Use proper referencing techniques/formats from journals, magazines, newspapers, brochures, books, articles, encyclopedia\'s, dictionaries, and websites. l. Write in-text references when citing from sources

Prerequisite: MER

Prerequisite Sentence: Students must have passed Fiji Seventh form English (Y13 exam) or equivalent.

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1