Public Speaking and Technical Writing Skills for Engineering Students - Softcover

Vesilind, P. Aarne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096505392X ISBN 13: 9780965053921

Publisher: Lakeshore Press, 1999

Synopsis

The accreditation agency for engineering schools, ABET, requires all programs to show that engineering students have received practice and instruction in both public speaking and technical writing. This book as been widely used in engineering schools, primarily in the senior level castone courses, as a means of assisting student in preparing for their oral presentations and the written design documents.

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About the Author

P. Aarne Vesilind has an undergraduate civil engineering degree from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina. He has worked for the Bird Machine Company and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research. From 1970 to 1998 he was on the faculty at Duke University, serving for seven years as the chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 1998 he was appointed the R. L. Rooke Professor of Engineering in the Historical and Societal Context at Bucknell University and retired in 2006 to become Professor Emeritus at Bucknell. Vesilind has written a number of books on environmental engineering, engineering ethics and technical communications, including Engineering, Ethics and the Environment, co-authored with Alastair Gunn (Cambridge University Press), and Hold Paramount, also with Alastair Gunn, published by Thompson Publications. Introduction to Environmental Engineering (PWS), co-authored with Susan Morgan, is designed for second year students in introductory environmental engineering courses. His latest book is Socially Responsible Engineering, co-authored with Daniel Vallero, and published by John Wiley & Sons. Vesilind won the teaching award four times at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke and received two school-wide teaching awards from the students at the Duke University School of Engineering. He originated and for many years taught a required course in communication skills for engineering students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lakeshore Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096505392X
• ISBN 13: 9780965053921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98