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LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY

Department of Management and Engineering

Approach

In higher education, engineering students are expected to

demonstrate ability to communicate written reports in a clear, informative, well structured, audience-targeted, technical and sometimes scientific way according to the course syllabi.

Despite extensive written communication practice, students

have in general difficulties in learning these skills. During master thesis writing common weaknesses are assoicated to poor:

Introduction

Improving Written Communication Skills in Engineering Programs

Magnus Andersson*, Hossein Nadali Najafadi and Joakim Wren

Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Poster ID

225

* CONTACT-EMAIL:

magnus.anderssos@liu.se

Report structure Report formatting

Some Identified Challanges Current Status

Two guideline documents were constructed:

Report structure - outline the extent and nature of the content to be covered within the technical/scientific reports

Report formatting - highlight text formatting requirements as well as artwork recommendations

In a recently developed course in Fluid Mechnics, given at the last semester of a two year Mechanical Engineering masters’s

programme, a tailored version of these suportive documents where intergrated into the learning-centered course design [1].

A survey evaluation indicated overall positive feeback from

students, where 70% considered the guidlines to be valuable in finalizing a report.

To assess the real value of these documents, however, further evaluations are needed, at different course level as well as for the master thesis written dissertations.

• How to encourage/motivate students to embrace these documents

• How to find a suitable comprehensive level of these guidelines

• How to conform these documents into different educational levels

Objective

The objective with this study was to investigate how supportive documents can be incorporated into undergraduate courses to promote students written communication skills.

These documents are intended as a natural part of the course

syllabus, at different stages of the educational process, aiming for a progressive development towards the final thesis writing.

This project in progress aims to improve students’ written communication skills within several engineering programs at Linköping University.

Initially these documents where devoted towards master thesis report writing. The content of these documents were inspired by:

• organizing and structuring

• relevance of content

• clarity and conciseness

• spelling and grammar

• identified weakness in students written communication skills

• guidelines from the scientific community

• the faculty and department master thesis requirements To promote progression, these documents were introduced

into a number of courses at different levels of the master programs.

References

[1] Najafabadi, H. N., Andersson, M., & Karlsson, M. (2016, June).

Assessment in a Learning-Centered Course Design Framework.

In Proceedings of the 12th International CDIO Conference, Turku, Finland.

12 International CDIO Conference June 12-16, 2016, Turku, Finland

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