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Introduction to communication skills required by practicing professional engineers.
This course is very unlike your other courses. It is a programme that we use to ensure you have competency in engineering communication. Our objective is to ensure that you have a good level of communication skills and that you have demonstrated an ability to use independent study to improve your skills.Communications Portfolio 1 is a full-year programme and is the required prerequisite for ENCN301: Communications Portfolio 2. A student may not enrol late (i.e., outside of the UC start times for full-year courses) in ENCN201 without the approval of the Dean.All 2nd year students are automatically enrolled in ENCN201 (Communications Portfolio 1). This is a compulsory degree requirement and a pre-requisite for ENCN301 (Communications Portfolio 2) and ENCN375, which are prerequisites for several compulsory 4th-year courses including the final year project. ENCN201W is a full-year programme and cannot be completed within one semester.Repeating Students: Students retaking ENCN201 must complete the full year (i.e., a student retaking ENCN201 cannot Pass mid-year and then enrol in ENCN301; final grades will be released only at the end of the year). Therefore, ENCN201 and ENCN301 cannot be completed in the same year.
At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:- Improve communication skills, with an emphasis on clear and concise writing (UC Attributes EIE2, Washington Accord WA10)- Gain a better appreciation of the role of writing in the engineering profession (UC Attributes EIE2, Washington Accord WA10)- Give effective oral presentations using technology and apply graphics to help deliver an effective message to a wider audience. (UC Attributes EIE2, EIE3, Washington Accord WA10)
Entry to first professional year of CNRE.
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Kim Parrent
Tonny de Vries
Tonny De Vries (E431) is the Director of the course
Assessment will be as follows (actual due dates will be confirmed in Term 1 via Learn and all assignments are due 5:00 pm unless otherwise stated): note that date and assessment type may be subject to change due to changes in supporting course assignments and/or COVID related issues):Assessments - Semester 1Writing test Assignment 1 – lab report S1Assignment 2 – Oral zoom Presentation S1/Term 1Assignment 3 – Short report S1/Term 2Assignment 4 – 3D sketch S2/Term 4Resubmission of Assessment (dates may change due to COVID):Assessment - Semester 2Assignment 1 – lab report S2/Term 3Assignment 2 – Oral zoom Presentation S2/Term 3Assignment 3 – Short report S2/Term 3Assignment 4 – 3D sketch S2/Term 4Please contact the course co-ordinator, in advance, if you have genuine difficulties meeting submission dates. All submissions are electronic submissions made via Learn. All assignments are compulsory. Resubmissions are required if the first attempt fails. There is only one chance to resubmit each item. Students will receive, in addition to marking feedback, a score out of 10 per report. This will allow for extra support/guidance for those who receive less than 5/10 for any report. Students who receive less than 5/10 will be given extra tutoring on specific writing issues from the course coordinator. These scores will help with the Overall Communication Score (OCS) out of 10 at the end of the year.To pass this course, students must submit all items required for ENCN201W (a non-submission will result in an overall Fail for the course) and Pass all four submissions by the end of 2022. That is, a student must pass both written reports (lab & reasoning reports) and the two other items (oral presentation & sketch). All failed items must also be resubmitted at the required time. Students must also receive an overall communication score of 5/10 (50%) for the course to gain a pass. Those who fail to submit any one or more of the four assessments, fail to pass an item by the end of the course, fail to resubmit any failed item, and/or receive less than 50%, will fail ENCN201A and have to retake the course in 2023."Statement on Generative AI use in ENCN201Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, L.L.M) is a new technology with clear implications for civil and natural resource engineering practice. In this course, the use of generative AI is NOT permitted.This courses’ policy is designed to promote your learning and intellectual development and to help you reach course Learning Objectives, which are to develop your writing and communication skills. Therefore, all assignments in this course must be fully prepared by the individual student. To ensure all students have an equal opportunity to succeed and to preserve the integrity of the course, students are not permitted to submit text that is generated (in whole or part) by generative AI.Use of Generative AI in course assessments:You may NOT use generative AI to complete assignments for ENCN201. You may NOT use AI such as ChatGPT, L.L.M, or any other plug-ins that automatically generate text within word-processing apps. The only permitted use of generative AI in this course are the grammar and spell check options on your word-processing software or Grammarly Basic (spell & grammar check tool only and no other Grammarly writing function). These approved tools make suggestions for revising work that you have already produced. These should be used with caution and with the understanding that you are ultimately responsible for the work you produce.Consequences of misuse of AI:Students suspected of using AI outside the specifications of this document will be reported to the department Academic Integrity Officer. As part of their investigation, students may be invited to attend an interview, during which they may be asked to describe how the assessment was completed or to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject. If it is determined that a student is likely to have misused AI, then disciplinary action may be taken, including partial or full denial of credit for an assignment or course, X-mark on transcript denoting breach of academic integrity, suspension, fines and/or expulsion."
A course handbook 2022 and other supplementary material will be made available online via Learn. Students must check into the course Learn site regularly and keep up-to-date with course notices and material. Learn attendance/activity may be monitored in some cases to ensure a student is participating in the course during the year.
WorkloadSome students will need very little time to meet our objectives and pass; other students will need many hours and use many more of our resources and methods of support. To minimise the workload for this programme, students submit a designated report that is part of another course’s assessment. However, students are advised that the levels of writing and presentation standards for Communications Portfolio are higher than other courses. It is required that students have read and followed the CPG (3rd edition) before submission. To reduce the time spent on Communications Portfolio we advise students to bring all their reports up to a high standard, using the CPG (3rd edition), in conjunction with the Communications Portfolio report template, so that they do not have to rewrite reports to submit for Communications Portfolio.Students should spend time carefully proofreading their reports before submitting them. There is a template for the reports available on Learn. Students are required to use this. This template can be easily adapted for other reports, saving students’ time. To cut down on failure due to presentation issues, it is required that all students use this template, adapted for the appropriate report when preparing their reports for submission.There are set tutorials that support the teaching of ENCN201.Tutorials: a compulsory 60-minute Tutorial (Tutorial A) to go over the ‘short report’ assignment.In addition to the set tutorial: all students who fail an item and need to resubmit must sign up for a one-on-one compulsory help session, this may be in-person or via Zoom, to assist with resubmission with the course coordinator before resubmitting. Full details on how to arrange this will be given early in Term 1.
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .