KMM 596 - Oral Communication Skills Workshop

Dersin Amaçları

This workshop focuses on the skills needed for effective formal oral and poster technical presentations. It is designed for engineering students who do not have English as their first language.

Dersin Tanımı

The Workshop involves a four-hour overview focusing on the organization and style components of both formal oral and poster technical presentations. Examples of both a PowerPoint? and poster presentation will be given to illustrate effective communication skills. Each student is required to prepare a 15-minute talk. Eight students are scheduled to present during each two-hour Workshop session. The total time commitment expected from each student is 6.5 hours including 4 hours of lectures, 2 hours of student presentations and a 30 minute one-on-one consultation session.