ENGRC 5026
Advanced Presentation Skills
As a technical contributor or expert, engineering researchers and professionals at all levels are called on frequently to give presentations (proposals, technical updates, progress reporting, client pitches, engineering advancements/information, and more). However, many presenters have not had specific training about planning, preparing, honing, executing, documenting, and archiving their presentation work. This course addresses those skills at an advanced level, addressing students’ MEng research areas. As well, issues of teamwork, AI, cross-cultural communication, institutional need, audience assessment, and personal presence will be covered. Students will give both individual and team talks.
Topics
- Oral Communication/Presentations: Plan, devise, formulate, design, and report information via professional presentations for various technical and stakeholder needs. Poster presentations are part of this work.
- 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. Poster presentations are part of this work.
- Teamwork: Create opportunities for all team members to contribute equally for a presentation given by a team.
Official roster learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027