Molina, G. J. (2025, March), On teaching technical writing in an introduction to engineering design class  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi. 10.18260/1-2--54185

\bibitem{asee_peer_54185}
  Molina, G. J. (2025, March), \emph{On teaching technical writing in an introduction to engineering design class}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi.
  10.18260/1-2--54185

Gustavo J. Molina.  "On teaching technical writing in an introduction to engineering design class".  2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/54185 Internet.  28 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_54185}
  Gustavo J. Molina.
  "On teaching technical writing in an introduction to engineering design class".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/54185 Internet.  28 Apr, 2025

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AB  - The author created a new class, called MENG 2110 – Mechanical Engineering Case Studies in Design and Analysis, to introduce students to the design methods and practice, as well as to teach them the techniques of technical reporting and communicating design products.  The class requires teaching sophomore students the fundamentals of technical writing, a skill that is not taught in typical English or Literature classes in college. This paper describes how such skill is developed in the limited time available in such design class, by the introduction of team-work assignment on reporting well-known cases of Mechanical Engineering design, and it discusses main difficulties of sophomore students evolving from typical narrative, fiction and “reflection” writings, which are required in other non-engineering classes. The author also presents his own teaching evolution on the subject and what focused points he developed and are taught to students regarding content, style and layout of a typical engineering reports. Data is introduced showing the improvement of writing skills in the class. 
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