Technical Writing for Engineers

Each professional engineering regulatory board across Canada has different CPD requirements, and some boards require strictly technical CPD courses related to your discipline. Courses in the area of Business Skills, Firm Management, or Personal Development may not qualify. Check your regulator's criteria to confirm the courses you need to fulfill your provincial requirements.

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

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.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Language simplification
• Writing status reports, progress reports, project crisis reports, and end of project reports
• Creating test procedures and reports
• Writing contracts
• Writing project-related letters
• Differences between Statement of Objectives, Design Objectives and Design Requirements
• Video-script writing tips
• Patent writing and record keeping
• Copyrighting your 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.