Entry requirements

The participant is required to be qualified for admission to engineering education or to have equivalent background knowledge.

Aims

In this course, the student will acquire

- the ability to work in a project team with people with various previous knowledge

- basic knowledge and skills in using IT-equipment

- basic knowledge in information retrieval

- proficiency in using spoken and written language in technology matters

- capacity for writing and presenting a technical report.

Content

IT-facilities: Producing and presenting a report using the programmes Word, Excel, Power Point etc. Communication via Internet. Information retrieval: libraries, databases, Internet. Language: Oral language, written language, technical language.

Technical/scientific report: Subject, investigation process, disposition, tables, figures, references. Production and presentation of a technical report. Oral presentation: The rhetorical rules for planning and performing the speech.

Instruction

Lectures, lessons, exercises and a project involving all engineering programmes.

Assessment

Examination is arranged through compulsory assignments within separate parts of the course. In order to obtain a pass, all assignments must be completed and approved.