Title :
Teaching risk communication to engineering students
Author :
Carlson, Patricia A.
Author_Institution :
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technol., Terre Haute, IN, USA
Abstract :
Changes in engineering education place issues of practice at the forefront of the curriculum. This paper describes a course in risk communication that complements the growing emphasis on systemic thinking, social impact awareness, and ethical responsibilities of technology. Rather than taking a genre-driven approach, the course uses four case studies to examine both the rhetorical and the social discourse dimensions of communicating risk
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; professional communication; risk management; teaching; engineering education; engineering students; ethical responsibilities; risk communication teaching; social impact awareness; systemic thinking; Accreditation; Context; Engineering education; Engineering students; Ethics; Power engineering and energy; Professional communication; Proposals; Psychology; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2001. IPCC 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Sante Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7209-3
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2001.971595
