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Teaching Writing in Required Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Materials Course Example
Author(s) -
Baren Robert
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1993.tb00075.x
Subject(s) - writing center , center (category theory) , course (navigation) , communication skills , science and engineering , engineering education , mathematics education , order (exchange) , engineering , computer science , engineering management , medical education , engineering ethics , psychology , pedagogy , medicine , chemistry , finance , economics , crystallography , aerospace engineering
In order to prepare engineering graduates with the communication skills required on the job, a communications center was established within the Engineering College. One of the main goals of the Center has been to develop writing skills. To achieve this goal one group of courses in Materials Science incorporates a major research paper. Significant feedback, both from the instructor and the University Writing Center is provided to the students while the paper is in preparation.