ENCN201-14W (C) Whole Year 2014

Communication Skills Portfolio 1


Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 September 2014

Description

Introduction to communication skills required by practicing professional engineers.

Prerequisites

Entry to first professional year of CNRE.

Timetable Note

Tutorials: 3 hours in first week of Term 4

Laboratories: Two-hour sessions in exam period (20 students per computer session)

Contact Person

Mark Milke

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Upton, Creon; Communications Portfolio Guide ; Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, 2013 (Can be purchased from University Bookshop).

Notes

This is a pass/fail degree requirement.  It is a pre-requisite for ENCN301, which is a pre-requisite for ENCN493 and ENCN470.


Requirements:

Students must take previously submitted coursework and improve it to a Professional Engineering standard.  Three individual Portfolio items must be submitted by the end of examinations in November—
1. Laboratory Report (one from multiple ENCN200 level courses)
2. Engineering Sketch (this will be from ENCN213 Design Studio 1
3. Reasoning Report (this will be from ENCN281 Environmental Engineering)

Advice on Portfolio submissions is provided in the Department Communication Skills Portfolio Guide and on the Learn site for ENCN201.

Portfolio items will be assessed over the summer and comments returned to students.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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