Title :
Getting “dissed”: technical communicators in interdisciplinary engineering teams
Author :
Dyke, Julie ; Wojahn, Patricia
Author_Institution :
New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
Abstract :
We discuss what we identified as the perils and promises of matching our technical communication students with teams of engineers in a capstone, client-based engineering course. Specifically, we identify the key issues that surfaced, focusing the discussion around three themes we saw as contributing to multidisciplinary success: participation level, role definition, and connections between interim processes/products and final deliverables. We conclude by sharing a series of initial recommendations and modifications established as we continue to improve this multidisciplinary endeavor and reconfigure models for working in multidisciplinary teams
Keywords :
engineering education; technical presentation; client-based engineering course; engineering education; interdisciplinary engineering teams; interim processes; participation level; role definition; students; technical communication; Chemical engineering; Communication industry; Context; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Levee; Lifting equipment; Problem-solving; Professional communication; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2000. Proceedings of 2000 Joint IEEE International and 18th Annual Conference on Computer Documentation (IPCC/SIGDOC 2000)
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6431-7
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2000.887257
