Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Technical Report Writing for Engineers
This course taught how to construct a well-written technical engineering report. Each week focused on a different section of the report and explored the content, style and presentation that it requires. Learners developed key report writing skills from referencing and citation to presenting data and using language and tenses correctly. The course contained interviews with practising engineers who gave insights on the importance of technical report writing within the engineering industry.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Andrew Garrard
Senior University Teacher and Director of Academic Operations, Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering Education
The University of Sheffield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain what a good technical engineering report is and what they are used for.
- Evaluate what a good report looks like.
- Use a technical report to communicate information.
- Apply knowledge of what goes into the key sections of a report to produce your own report.
Syllabus
- Why technical reports are important for communicating ideas and concepts
- The anatomy of a technical report
- How to write aims and objectives
- Citing and referencing
- Presenting equations and nomenclature
- Figures, diagrams and labelling
- Presenting data
- Units, precision and errors
- Use of language and tense
- How and why to write discussion sessions
- Writing an abstract
Issued on 29th December 2022
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