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Introduction to communication skills required by practicing professional engineers.
Entry to first professional year of CNRE.
Please note that the 2026 timetable has not been finalised.
Scheduled days and times will be confirmed, following review, on 15th October.
Students must attend one activity from each section.
WorkloadSome students will need very little time to meet our objectives and pass; other students will need many hours and use many moreof our resources and methodsof support. To minimise the workload for this programme, whenever possible, students submit a designated report that is part of another course’s assessment. However, due to possible constraints with supporting courses, this may not always be possible, and a written report, sketch or oral presentation may need to be prepared separately for ENCN201 based on work completed in the supporting course. Students are advised that the levels of writing and presentation standards for Communications Portfolio are higherthan in other courses. It is required that students have read and followed the CPG (3rd edition) before submission.Students should spend time carefully proofreading their reports before submitting them. There is a required/compulsory template for the reports available on Learn. Students are required to use this. Failure to use the template will result in the report not being marked. This template can beeasily adapted for other reports, savingstudents 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. It is also something that you will do in professional practice and templates are required within many companies for different forms of communication.Although ENCN201 is a self-directed programme, there is help available that supports the teaching of ENCN201.Workshops: There is a CNRE workshop on the use of Generative AI set for Term 1. Although this is set in the ENCN201 timetable, this workshop is held by the department and run by Dr David Dempsey. Following the workshop, a series of short online videos will be released. Students will be required to revise these and then complete a quiz on the responsible use of Generative AI.Submissions: all students can receive help/advise on their first submissions with the course coordinator before submitting. In addition, those who fail an item and need to resubmit must sign up for a one-on- one compulsory Zoom help session with the course coordinator, which may be in-person or via Zoom, to assist with resubmission before resubmitting. Full details on how to arrange this will be given in Term 2.
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