Honors Engineering Communications
Undergraduates who are already approved for Honors in the majors may apply for ENGRC 3341. Enrollment in this course is an acknowledgement that the Honors committee for this student will guide the student in writing and other engineering communications skills. A written Honors thesis that includes a 20+page research report (using primary and secondary sources) is the cornerstone consideration; students are also expected to produce a second communication-intense outcome, such as a scientific poster or a public presentation about their Honors topic. Apply for consideration at the start of the semester when the Honors project will be completed. Learning outcomes will be individualized to the Honors project, but will include no fewer than two of those listed below.
Topics
- 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. Students should expect to single-author a significant research paper
- Oral Communication/Presentations: plan, devise, formulate, design, and report information via professional presentations for various technical and stakeholder needs
- 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, for example.
- 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.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
two (2) First-Year Writing Seminars and major affiliation.
Sources
Catalogue variants
- Guided Fieldwork for Engineering Communications · 1.0 · Undergraduate
- Honors Engineering Communications · 1.0 · Undergraduate