Handouts & Resources

Engineering Communication Guides

Contrary to popular belief, engineers do not live in a language-free zone: far from it. Whether you solve problems on a construction site or at a computer terminal, a true measure of success is your ability to explain and justify your work to a wide range of audiences, including professors, managers, colleagues, clients - even the general public. To that end, the following guides will acquaint you with some of the basic formats
and situations in which engineers express their expertise.

Tips & Strategies

If these tips and strategies seem written from a student's perspective, it's because they are - the authors are part of CTC's staff of peer consultants. As engineers-in-training and able wordsmiths, they have taken great care to craft these documents in clear, concise, and unambiguous language. Three cheers to Pauline Gassmann, Anna Hoppe, Ravi Narayan, Laila Johnson, Jenna Hetland, Christopher Weber, Natalie Van Osdel, and Sue Bruell for their contributions.