Communication Skills: Making Engineering Types Flyers & Quizzes
Engineers need to have good communication skills.Copyright 2008 Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force, Wikimedia Commons (public domain) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense.gov_News_Photo_080501-F-2828D-239.jpg
Students review information learned during the past five lessons and activities of the Intro to Engineering unit. Working in teams, they create flyers/brochures and five-question quizzes about various types of engineering that they test with another team and then share with the class. Then the class participates in a game of "Engineering Jeopardy," using the team-prepared quiz answers/questions. The flyers/brochures and quizzes with answer sheets are collected into an "Olympic Engineering" binder for the class to keep and contribute to during the year. A concluding unit quiz is provided.
It is important for engineers to have good communication skills. Engineers usually work in teams, and are responsible to clearly explain their ideas and designs to others.
After this activity, students should be able to:
- List seven different kinds of engineers: biomedical, chemical, environmental, civil, electrical, mechanical and aerospace.
- Explain which kind of engineering they are most fascinated with and why.