Conference Session

Fostering Business and Professional Skills in the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

should beconsidered as a core activity of the engineering design and project development and inseparablefrom other tasks. In some instances, technical communication courses fall behind accomplishingthis objective because these courses are not necessarily constructed to incorporate engineeringdesign and communication of the design elements in written justification that would make theoverall engineering design process a meaningful task rather than just number-crunching anddesign-drawing activity3.Conventional approaches to teach design skills, such as working numerical problems, routineprogramming are not adequate to help students learn the soft skills, i.e., process skills required todevelop a comprehensive solution to an engineering problem4