Technical Writing for Engineers

In Technical Writing for Engineers , you'll learn ...

• Language simplification
• Writing status reports, progress reports, project crisis reports, and end of project reports
• Creating test procedures and reports
• Writing contracts

Overview

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Credit: 1 CPD

Length: 14 pages

Effective communication skills are essential to your professional development. This course provides engineers with the tools necessary to write effective specifications, reports, letters, contracts and other documentation required in an engineer's professional practice. Patent writing, video-script writing and copyrighting are also covered.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Simplify technical language for greater clarity.
• Write status reports, progress reports, project crisis reports, and end-of-project reports.
• Create test procedures and reports.
• Draft contracts using appropriate technical-writing practices.
• Prepare project-related letters.
• Distinguish among Statements of Objectives, Design Objectives, and Design Requirements.
• Apply effective video-script writing techniques.
• Describe practices for patent writing and record keeping.
• Explain considerations involved in copyrighting technical material.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.