I'm a Mechanical Engineer. In my experience, once engineering students make it through the "weed-out classes" in college, the skill that separates good students and successful engineers in industry is communication skills - mostly written, but oral also.
So, I am a big advocate of teaching and cultivating writing skills. My direct repor…
I'm a Mechanical Engineer. In my experience, once engineering students make it through the "weed-out classes" in college, the skill that separates good students and successful engineers in industry is communication skills - mostly written, but oral also.
So, I am a big advocate of teaching and cultivating writing skills. My direct reports over the years have complained about my nit-picking their writing and spelling, but have thanked me for emphasizing it when they get promoted over others who did not realize how important this was.
That is true but he was using a test method that would only test the student's knowledge on the subject matter if the student was proficient in constructing essays. Most high schoolers aren't.
A comment on your point. My late wife built a successful career at an engineering firm by translating engineer speak into politician speak. They called it marketing, which is something that every highly successful project manager has to master too.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer. In my experience, once engineering students make it through the "weed-out classes" in college, the skill that separates good students and successful engineers in industry is communication skills - mostly written, but oral also.
So, I am a big advocate of teaching and cultivating writing skills. My direct reports over the years have complained about my nit-picking their writing and spelling, but have thanked me for emphasizing it when they get promoted over others who did not realize how important this was.
That is true but he was using a test method that would only test the student's knowledge on the subject matter if the student was proficient in constructing essays. Most high schoolers aren't.
A comment on your point. My late wife built a successful career at an engineering firm by translating engineer speak into politician speak. They called it marketing, which is something that every highly successful project manager has to master too.
Me, I'm just an over educated carpenter