ELEC ENG 7057 - Engineering Communication & Critical Thinking
North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2014
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code ELEC ENG 7057 Course Engineering Communication & Critical Thinking Coordinating Unit School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Term Semester 1 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Professor Lincoln Wood
Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
No information currently available.
University Graduate Attributes
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
References
Students are expected to own and use a dictionary and a grammar book suitable for their level. If you do not already have these, some options follow. Check for more recent editions.
Dictionaries
Macquarie Dictionary, 2005, Yallop, C (ed), 4thedn, Macquarie Library, North Ryde, N.S.W
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2005, 7thedn, OUP, Oxford.
Grammar Books
Alexander, LG 1990, Longman English Grammar Practice, Longman, Harlow.
Hewings, M 2005, Advanced Grammar in Use, 2ndedn, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Murphy, R. 2007, Essential Grammar in Use, 3rdedn, Cambridge University Press Melbourne.
Murphy, R 2004, English Grammar in Use, 3rdedn, Cambridge University Press, Sydney.
Peters, P 1995, The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Swan, M 1995, Practical English Usage, Oxford University Press, Oxford.Recommended Resources
Beer, D &McMurrey, D 2005, A Guide to Writing as an Engineer, 2ndedn,John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken.
Cargill, M O'Connor, P 2009, Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester,
Chaffee, J, McMahan & Stout, B 2008, Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing: A Rhetoric with Readings, 4th edn, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Copi, IM & Cohen C, 1998, Introduction to Logic, 10th edn, Prentice-Hall International, London.
Eunson, B 2005 or 2006, Communicating in the 21st Century, John Wiley and Sons, Milton.
Girle, RA, 2008, Introduction to Logic, 2nd edn, Pearson Education, Rosedale.
Hart, H 2005, Introduction to Engineering Communication, Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River.
Huckin, T & Olsen, LA 1991, Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English, (2nd ed.), McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York.
Ingre, D 2008, Engineering Communication: a practical guide to workplace communications for engineers, Thompson, Toronto.
Mohan, T McGregor, H Saunders, S &Archee, R., 2008, Communicating as Professionals,Thomson, Southbank.
Munson, R and Black, A 2007, The Elements of reasoning, 5thedn, Thomson, Belmont.
Penrose, AM & Katz SB 2004, Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse (2nd ed.) Pearson Education, New York
Rudinow, J & Barry V E,1994, Invitation to critical thinking, 3rd ed.Holt, Rinehart & Winston,Fort Worth,
Swales, J &Feak, C 1994, Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Weissberg, R &Buker, S 1990 Writing up Research, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.Online Learning
An extensive range of resources are available through MyUni. Students are expected to check their email and MyUni dailyfor information, announcements, resources and learning tasks. -
Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
Lectures and workshops are the primary means of delivery in this task-based course.To learn successfully in this course students need to interact with each other in English in workshops and listen to and absorb material in lectures. Thus, students are required to attend and actively participate in both workshops and lectures. Through discussion, negotiation and other formative tasks during workshopsstudents will have the opportunity to develop and hone their English language and critical thinking skills. Written and oral assessment tasks and assignments will provide opportunities for students to expand and refine their communication skills in English.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
Contact time per week:
Lecture: 1 hour
Workshop: 2 hours
Students are expected to spend a minimum of four hours per week actively following up material and tasks presented in lectures,workshops and online through MyUni and or email.Learning Activities Summary
Content:
This course consists of a series of lectures and workshops.The teaching topics will be drawn from the following:
o Overview of engineering communication and critical thinkingo Complex systems in everyday languageo Professional practice and communicationo Managing engineering informationo Review of information sourceso The language of businesso Social responsibility and regulationso Risk and safety managemento Ethical thinking in professional practiceo Requirements and synthetic languageso Formal engineering reviewso Requested topics on professional practice
Communication and critical thinking competencies will be developed from these contextually-based teaching topics. -
Assessment
The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:
- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Assessment Activity Weighting Due Learning Objective Assignments (4) 70% TBA All Continuous assessment 10% Continuous All Seminar 20% TBA All Assessment Related Requirements
Students must obtain at least 40% in the seminarAssessment Detail
Details of assessment tasks will be provided during the course. There will be a mix of group and individual assessment.Submission
Written assignments are submitted electronically. Selected assignments may be submitted electronically to Turnitin or other plagiarism software.All assignments must have a signed student declaration. Late submissions are not accepted.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
Final results for this course will be made available through .
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Student Feedback
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SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
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