Course Description
LANG4034 is a three-credit, one semester core course offered to third-year students from Mechanical and Aerospace (MAE) engineering. Students attend three hours of class and complete up to six hours of out-of-class work per week. The course is offered in Spring semester. The course focusses on two areas:
Laboratory report writing
Students will develop effective organisational strategies and enhance their ability to use appropriate language and skills to write laboratory reports for their MAE courses; having developed an understanding of what constitutes an effective laboratory report, they will then use this knowledge to critique laboratory reports.
Communication skills for technical projects
Students will develop effective organisational strategies and enhance their ability to use appropriate language and skills to write an academic project report for MAE. They will also learn how to present information coherently, and for maximum impact on the audience, in a pitch and a presentation on an MAE design idea.
Comparison of LANG 2030 and 2030(H) and LANG 4034
| LANG 2030 | discipline-based (all SENG students take the same course) | focuses on developing students’ academic speaking and writing | general topics that are important for all engineers (social responsibility & creativity) |
| LANG 4034 | subject-based (only MAE students take this course) | focuses on developing speaking and writing skills to meet the discipline-specific academic needs of students | topics drawn from MAE |
Pre-requisites for LANG 4034
LANG 2030 or LANG 2030(H)
The course is open to students from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering only. Students will take this course in Year 3, Spring Semester.
Intended Learning Outcomes
| Knowledge and Content Related |
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| Academic Skills and Competencies |
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| Ethical Standards |
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| Vision and Orientation to the Future |
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