Bousaba, N. A., & Conrad, J. M., & Coco, J. L., & Miri, M., & Cox, R. W. (2014, June), Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Courses: A Four-Course Study  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--20621

\bibitem{asee_peer_20621}
  Bousaba, N. A., \& Conrad, J. M., \& Coco, J. L., \& Miri, M., \& Cox, R. W. (2014, June), \emph{Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Courses: A Four-Course Study}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--20621

Nabila  A. Bousaba, James M. Conrad, Jean L. Coco, Mehdi Miri, and Robert W. Cox.  "Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Courses: A Four-Course Study".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/20621 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20621}
  Nabila  A. Bousaba, James M. Conrad, Jean L. Coco, Mehdi Miri, and Robert W. Cox.
  "Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Courses: A Four-Course Study".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/20621 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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AB  -  Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer Engineering                  Design Courses: A Four-Course StudyAbstract:One measure of continuous improvement in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment (ECE) at the University of XXXX is survey feedback from alumni on students’workplace readiness. In a recent survey, alumni highlighted oral communication as an area ofweakness. When a group of faculty teaching design courses learned about the University’sCommunication Across the Curriculum (CAC) program, they formed a pilot team to focus onimproving student oral presentation skills in the design courses.The CAC program focuses on the oral and written communication to be an integral role inteaching students reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. That initiative hassince grown into a program that seeks to develop a communication enhanced curriculum (CEC)at the departmental level.The CAC program hosts an annual institute during which departmental teams gain professionaldevelopment in the areas of oral and written communication. At the 2010 CAC Institute, a teamof ECE faculty set the strategic goal to improve ECE students’ ability to clearly convey technicalinformation orally during design presentations. The ECE team then met with the CACcoordinator to develop an oral communication rubric for uniform implementation, thusestablishing a cohesive assessment across the department’s sequenced design courses.Our goal with this approach was to improve oral communication skills among our graduates. Wefocused on three important skills in oral presentation: audience awareness and interaction,message coherence and focus, and message delivery. A team of five faculty (four from ECE andthe CAC director) worked together to generate a rubric to evaluate students oral presentationskills in the sophomore design (ECGR 2252), junior design (ECGR 3157) and senior design(ECGR 3253 and ECGR 3254) courses. The implementation began by using rubrics to evaluatestudent and team presentations in each of the four courses above. We videotaped the presentationfor students to review later so they could learn from their own mistakes. We plan to follow teamsof students from the spring of 2012 until fall 2013, and to track and observe their progress fromsophomore design to senior design; we hope to see positive outcomes so we can justify fullimplementation into other ECE courses by the fall of 2014.This paper describes both our research methodology and the process we followed to implementthis inquiry into oral communication, including a before and after comparison of the students’oral communication skills. The data we have collected is from measurement tools put in place sixyears ago for ABET Student Outcome reporting.
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AU  - James M. Conrad
AU  - Jean L. Coco
AU  - Mehdi Miri
AU  - Robert W. Cox
CY  - Indianapolis, Indiana
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
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