ENCN301-14W (C) Whole Year 2014

Communication Skills Portfolio 2


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

Development of communication skills required by practicing professional engineers. Sketches, oral presentation, and various types of written reports.

Prerequisites

Timetable Note

Tutorials: 3 hours in first week of Term 3
Laboratories:  9 streams of two-hour sessions in Term 3 (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

Notes:  This is a pass/fail degree requirement.  It is a pre-requisite for ENCN493 and ENCN470.


Requirements: Students must take previously submitted coursework and improve it to a Professional Engineering standard.  

Six individual Portfolio items must be approved to pass this degree requirement—
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)
4. Calculation-rich Report (one from multiple ENCN300 level courses)
5. Client Report (from ENCI/ENNR313) or Practical Work Report
6. Oral Presentation (provided via ViP software)

Students will have submitted the first three items to pass ENCN201.  Comments on those will indicate if further work is needed to reach Portfolio standard.

The final three items are required for only ENCN301.  Advice on Portfolio submissions is provided in the Department Communication Skills Portfolio Guide and on the Learn site for ENCN301.

All students are required to submit a complete Portfolio by the end of lectures in Term 3.
Portfolio items will be assessed before the start of Term 4.  Students who do not pass Portfolio on the first attempt will have an opportunity to resubmit by the end of examinations.  Students who do not pass on this second attempt will have an opportunity to pass an approved summer course in lieu of ENCN301.  Students taking a summer course will be responsible for all costs and responsible for any implications that a loss of summer employment has on meeting Practical Work requirements for graduation.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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