scholarly journals TEACHERS PERSPECTIVE ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhangi R. Khambayat
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Graduating Students ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Made In

Communication skills among graduating students are seen as a key performance indicator to measure the success of any individual in the world of work in many countries in the region. Taking into account graduating students competing for job positions with a global workforce, it would be their Communication skills proficiency that would be tested to the maximum, as English is the most widely spoken languages in the world at present. An effective communication, act as a bridge to fulfil the gap between world of study and world of work and thereby make passouts readily acceptable to the industry. The institution offering educational programs will have to integrate Communication skills as an integrated component to prepare young students for future employment (ABET, 2000). An attempt is made in this paper to investigate the level of communication skills among students. Teachers’ views were sought on Communication skills via a self-administered questionnaire. It assessed four core elements in Communication skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The paper shares the outcomes of this survey.

Developing Engineering Students' Communication and Information Retrieval Skills Utilizing Capstone Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Blicblau ◽  
Jamal Naser
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
International Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Key Aspects

The pedagogy of engineering requires a better understanding of the requirements of students' abilities to learning the skills necessary for working in the engineering community. In many engineering courses around the world, one of the key aspects required of the students is that they complete an independent project in their final year of studies incorporating information retrieval and subsequent communication skills. The current work provides details teaching and learning approaches to enhance student abilities and expertise involving research skills, communication skills, and information retrieval integrated within capstone projects. Findings from this the work indicated that both domestic and international students benefited from the intensive tutorial activities involving computer based information retrieval skills. The implementation of active tutorial sessions resulted in increased grades for the majority of students, highlighting the importance of intensive active learning events for final year capstone engineering students.

Enhancement of Student Learning for Effective Capstone Project Outcomes

2014 ◽  
pp. 40-59
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Blicblau ◽  
Jamal Naser
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Capstone Project ◽  
The World ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Key Aspects

It is commonly accepted that today’s engineers are required to deal with a whole range of matters involving scientific, technological, and importantly communication issues, and so need to be educated with these aspect in mind. The pedagogy of engineering requires a better understanding of students’ abilities to guide their approach to learning the necessary skills of working in the engineering community. Consequently, there is an ever-increasing need for engineering graduates who are able to communicate effectively. In many engineering courses around the world, one of the key aspects required of the students is that they complete an independent project in their final year of studies. This chapter examines student abilities and skills required to successfully develop capstone projects which involve research skills, communication skills, and information-retrieval abilities. Findings from the work show that, although local and international students benefited from the intensive tutorial activities, it was the NESBC students who found the active learning events to be the most beneficial. The implementation of the active tutorial sessions resulted in increased grades for the majority of students. The procedures followed to achieve these findings highlight the importance of intensive active learning events for final year capstone engineering students.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhangi R. Khambayat
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Workplace Communication ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Made In

Communication plays an important role in our everyday life. Good communication is therefore vital for effective functioning in the work environment. There is overwhelming evidence that proficiency in communication skills can make any individual more versatile, and thus more competitive in the workplace. Communication is a mode, which helps every one of us to transfer our messages, thoughts, feelings, thinking, imagination and ideas. This is a function pre-installed or naturally exists in every human being to show his/her existence by language. Thus, every student certainly needs effective and impressive communication skills. As a result, there are growing expectations from educational institutions to cater the needs of the workplace. One of the major issues we need to address includes, what measures should be taken to make the students work-ready‘? In this perspective, Teachers have an important role to play in enhancing the communication skills among students. Considering the diversity in the classroom, there is a growing demand to use innovative methods and strategies, including framing good quality instructional resources to enhance various sub-skills of communication among our students. An attempt is made in this article, to contribute to the ongoing discussion in the changing contexts of communication skills from the perspective of preparing our students to face future challenges. The paper shares ideas on enhancing the four core elements of Communication skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in order to get an edge up in the competition for work and employment.

scholarly journals English Communication Skills and the Needs of Engineering Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 96-98 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Higher Education

English language is both a lingua franca and a library language in India. It plays a predominant role in Indian higher education, particularly for engineering education. English language is crucial for engineering students not only for academic excellence but also for career advancement. English for engineering students is a platform, where they could share feelings, exchange ideas and interact with each other to better their academic standards and careers progression. English, a widely spoken language in the world, is more important for Indian engineering students as they are expected to work anywhere in and out of India, where English is a medium of communication in the workplace.

scholarly journals Using Community Service Learning to Develop the Writing Skills of Engineering Students

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Meyer ◽  
Helen Triantafellou ◽  
Kim Davis
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Engineering Communication ◽  
Audience Awareness

In our Engineering Communication Skills classrooms we aim to provide a meaningful setting in which students move from the classroom sphere to the professional sphere of writing. In this paper, we report on how we can use community service learning (CSL) to bridge these two spheres of writing. We show how the necessity of effective communication with community-based clients leads to audience awareness and subsequent acquisition of professional Engineering communication skills.

scholarly journals Level of Perceived Employability of Engineering Students in Kathmandu Valley

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Amrita Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
The World ◽  
Graduating Students

The discourse of employability revolves around the mitigation of mismatch between educational outcomes and the job market demand.  This discourse is pertinent in engineering education as it is dedicated to producing human resources with the required employability skills. In this context, the students - to whom employability is transformed - are in the central focus. Their perceptions about their abilities in demonstrating and performing in the world of work require attention to connect education and their work. Considering this, the level of perceived employability of the engineering students studying in their final year was measured by using a self-constructed scale in a representative sample of 314 students of Kathmandu valley. The finding shows that the graduating students’ perceived employability was not consolidated and optimised to reflect on their behaviour and practices. It is at the level of ‘emergence’ and ‘presence’, which is thus not enough to see in their abilities to perform better. Therefore, the students were not able to perform as per the expectation of the market.  The key implication of this study is that the gap of work-study transition stipulated to be minimised for the employability of the graduates with their exposure in the world of work.

Using Multiple Methods in Assessing Oral Communication Skills in the Final Year Project Design Course of an Undergraduate Engineering Program

2012 ◽  
pp. 263-287
Author(s):  
Rohani Othman ◽  
Zubaidah Awang
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Course Assessment ◽  
Communication Assessment ◽  
Multi Method Approach

Engineering education researcher Rogers (2006) proposed that an assessment of engineering programs should use a multi-method approach to maximize validity and reduce the biasness of any one approach. Based on this reason, this study used two methods in the direct assessment of oral communication skills performance outcome of an undergraduate electrical engineering students’ Final Year Project (FYP) design experience. In the first method, the Oral Communication Assessment Rubrics adapted from Norback et al. (2008) was tested for its reliability, consistency in the scores and ease of use. This was to ensure that the results were descriptive of the expected students’ performance (Miller & Olds, 1999). Once faculty rater reliability was achieved and verified, the rubrics were refined and redrafted to obtain inter-rater scores for the assessment of the oral communication skills during the FYPII seminar presentation. Descriptive statistics were used to draw inferences from the inter-rater scores. In the second method, the researcher used the final grades of these students which were obtained from the faculty end-of-course assessment of their FYPII seminar presentation through the use of the faculty Seminar Evaluation Form (SEF). The scores obtained from SEF were reported in the Course Assessment Summary Report (CASR) in the form of the achieved Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of the students in each department in the Electrical Engineering Faculty (FKE).

Developing Engineering Students' Communication and Information Retrieval Skills Utilizing Capstone Projects

2018 ◽  
pp. 1803-1824
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Blicblau ◽  
Jamal Naser
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
International Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Key Aspects

The pedagogy of engineering requires a better understanding of the requirements of students' abilities to learning the skills necessary for working in the engineering community. In many engineering courses around the world, one of the key aspects required of the students is that they complete an independent project in their final year of studies incorporating information retrieval and subsequent communication skills. The current work provides details teaching and learning approaches to enhance student abilities and expertise involving research skills, communication skills, and information retrieval integrated within capstone projects. Findings from this the work indicated that both domestic and international students benefited from the intensive tutorial activities involving computer based information retrieval skills. The implementation of active tutorial sessions resulted in increased grades for the majority of students, highlighting the importance of intensive active learning events for final year capstone engineering students.

scholarly journals On the Rocky Road to Academia: Stumbling Blocks for Finnish Engineering Students with English as a Second Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Hanna Niemelä ◽  
Johanna Naukkarinen
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Scientific Publications

Communication skills, especially academic writing skills in English, are vital for a successful career in the global scientific community. Finnish engineering students, however, seem to encounter problems when preparing their scientific publications in English as a second language (ESL) for international forums. Thus, these skills should be enhanced at all levels of academic education to promote students’ development as experts in their field. The paper describes challenges faced by engineering students in academic writing and seeks solutions to promote students’ learning process. In addition to communication issues, the paper enlightens the environment and conditions in which the engineering students operate. By an interpretive study, the paper examines texts written by Finnish engineering students. The qualitative textual analysis is based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. Further, the paper discusses learning of academic writing from the perspective of situated learning. Based on the textual analysis, the paper identifies challenges and problems in academic writing, namely unfamiliarity with publication practices, grammar and terminology problems, unawareness of academic discourse strategies, such as hedging and the use of cohesive devices, and challenges with handling feedback. To enhance students’ competences in academic communication within their discipline, guidance and training of communication skills should be integrated into relevant technical and academic contexts throughout the engineering studies. Thus, in addition to thesis writing, argumentation and writing skills and the use of databases can be enhanced for instance by writing course reports in the form of academic papers. Individual consultation also plays a key role in the situated learning process.

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