English Courses

The course aims to develop students’ ability to analyze critically the wider social implications of engineering products and processes, through the careful examination of texts (and other media) beyond their own specific engineering field and to communicate effectively by delivering oral presentations and writing reports on topics relevant to all engineers.

• Analyze and discuss some of the major ethical issues that engineers face in their work, with reference to real-world cases.
• Discuss and evaluate engineering innovations to devise an innovative engineering idea.

• Ethical case presentation and seminar discussion
• Analytical report
• Proposal presentation
• Proposal report, including
• Two quizzes on research skills and citing sources

Required for Year 2 students from the School of Engineering in the 2023-24 intake and earlier.

Student testimonials

• "I can analyze the causes and ethical implications of an engineering incident."
• "I find GenAI effective in the language learning of LANG2030 as it is helpful for synthesizing sources and allowing us to focus on analyzing ethical issues."
• "Working in group projects helps more than individual projects because everyone's perspectives are different. Discussions help analyze a case more thoroughly."
• "I love the second part of this course. Designing a new product with groupmates is very interesting. When we are discussing the product from different perspectives, we get new ideas. I think it is like entrepreneurship."