ENGRC 3341

Guided Fieldwork for Engineering Communications

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog.

Provides individual students opportunity to pursue guided fieldwork in their major, and includes significant engineering communication opportunities. Success in the course relies on commitment from both the student and their College of Engineering mentoring faculty selected from within their major. This course requires students to go above and beyond regular coursework expectations and can take the form of undergraduate research, independent study, an honors project, or even an outreach activity.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: two (2) First-Year Writing Seminars and major affiliation.

Outcomes

• Oral Communication/Presentations: plan, devise, formulate, design, and report information via professional presentations for various technical and stakeholder needs.
• Written Communication: identify, research, negotiate, and compose various texts to further a technical or engineering effort with consideration to context and audience; use writing and planning skills to support presentation work both for the talk itself and as archival legacy documentation.
• Visual and Multimodal Communication: visualize, illustrate, and appropriately caption visuals; discriminate between methodologies for creating visuals other multimodal artifacts to support the technical endeavor; create visuals and multimodal artifacts that are accessible. Examples may include conference-style posters, informative videos, or other.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Comments Satisfies the College of Engineering's engineering communication requirement.

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