Fries, R., & Cross, B., & Zhou, J., & Verbais, C. (2015, June), Student Communication Improvements during an Industry-Sponsored Civil Engineering Senior Design Course  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24749

\bibitem{asee_peer_24749}
  Fries, R., \& Cross, B., \& Zhou, J., \& Verbais, C. (2015, June), \emph{Student Communication Improvements during an Industry-Sponsored Civil Engineering Senior Design Course}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24749

Ryan Fries P.E., Brad Cross P.E., Jianpeng Zhou, and Chad Verbais.  "Student Communication Improvements during an Industry-Sponsored Civil Engineering Senior Design Course".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24749 Internet.  05 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_24749}
  Ryan Fries P.E., Brad Cross P.E., Jianpeng Zhou, and Chad Verbais.
  "Student Communication Improvements during an Industry-Sponsored Civil Engineering Senior Design Course".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24749 Internet.  05 Feb, 2025

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AB  - Many engineering programs use senior design courses to introduce students to real-worldprojects, and sometimes connect them with practicing engineers. Because strong communicationabilities are essential for practicing engineers and indicative of career advancement potential,engineering educators are increasing curriculum emphases on these skills. This multidisciplinarystudy sought to identify how an industry-sponsored senior design course improved studentcommunication abilities. Faculty from a Civil Engineering Department and their campusWriting Center participated in the study. The authors collected student exit surveys during ninesemesters of a senior design course; comparing student perceptions between faculty-led andindustry-sponsored projects. Additionally, two semesters of before-and-after writing sampleswere collected during industry-sponsored classes and were evaluated by faculty using a rubric.The student surveys suggested a statistically significant increase in learning about professionalissues, problem solving, and written/oral communication with industry-sponsored projects.Evaluation of student writing samples during these industry-sponsored projects suggests that thestudents significantly improved written communication skills, specifically in the areas ofgrammar/spelling and organization of content. These findings suggest that industry-sponsoredprojects help students recognize the relation between professionalism and organized and error-free written communication.                                                                                                1
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