Communication Instruction in Select UK Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Curricula

Abstract

There is no ignoring the explosion of curriculum provisions, over the last two decades or so, for the teaching of communication in engineering programs. As it relates to the United States of America and Canada, there are scores of papers which detail the communication curriculum at single institutions, and several that examine curricula across engineering schools. Where there are accounts of communication content in UK programs these tend to be brief. Further, there appears to be no cross-institutional comparisons of engineering programs. This study addresses this gap in part: It reports on openly available curriculum material at five Electrical Engineering undergraduate programs. Per program, we examined courses with communication instruction; the communication topics that are taught; the types of student submissions that programs require; and provisions for communication support external to programs, as may be available at writing centers.