RE: If you were asked to design a course for undergrad engineeringstudents...

["Ladonna Weeks" <ladonna -dot- weeks -at- comtrak -dot- com>]

I would like a course (or preferrably a document) that had nomenclature in
various engineering fields! Recently someone asked me if the word "bus" (as
in the part of a computer that boards connect to) should be capitalized. I
looked on the Web and saw it all different ways. I finally asked one of the
engineers and he thought it didn't matter but I'm still not sure whether
there is a convention and if so, what it is. I don't even know where to look
for that information. So a course (or document) containing information like
this would be valuable to me. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Lewicke [mailto:plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:23 PM
To: Tissa Salter; TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: If you were asked to design a course for undergrad
engineeringstudents...

I would design a course to serve as a broad overview of technical
communications, because it would provide competency that the students would
be able to use in most any field. 

I can understand why someone would want to tailor a technical communications
course to a particular discipline, but how many people end up working in
exactly the field they major in as undergraduates? 

As a compromise, it might be a good idea to have classes on the specific
style, nomenclature, standard abbreviaitons, etc. used in each of those
majors.



--- Tissa Salter <tissa55 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Hello all:
> 
> We are in the process of reviewing our technical communication program 
> and I thought I would ask this group for your opinions.  I apologize 
> in advance for the redundancy if I have already contacted you via 
> other lists or directly.
> 
> Background: Texas A&M University has opened a new campus in Qatar and 
> we are only offering degrees in Electrical, Mechanical, Petroleum, and 
> Chemical Engineering.  In addition to the engineering courses, the 
> predominantly Qatari and other Middle Eastern students must, by Texas 
> State law, take all the normal core classes required on the home 
> campus.  I teach Technical Communication, a generalist 
> sophomore/junior level required English class.
> 
> Issue: It has been mentioned by some engineering faculty that this 
> class should be tailored to separate the students and teach 
> industry-specific documentation  to each of the four engineering 
> specialties.
> 
> Without biasing your opinion, I would like to know how you would teach 
> technical communication to this student body if you could design the 
> course. Would you design a course to serve as a broad overview that 
> yields the core competencies the students will need in most any field, 
> or would you support an industry-specific approach?
> Why?
> 
> Your thoughts and opinions would be EXTREMELY valuable to us as we 
> study this issue.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tissa Salter
> English Faculty
> Texas A&M University at Qatar
> 
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