Developing online writing aids for electrical engineering majors-a progress report

In 1993, we presented our framework for a five-year project to enhance the communication skills of electrical engineering students and in 1994 we discussed our findings of our initial surveys of electrical engineering students and a study of communication activities of recent graduates in a high tech company. In this paper we discuss the functions of our instructional programs, demonstrate the initial program interfaces that we have developed, discuss our development process, report the results of initial usability testing of the programs, and discuss selected survey results of electrical engineers´ communication practices