On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, James Cownie wrote:
On 28 Jan 2006, at 03:37, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
A whole CLASS on "team work" or "presentation skills"? As fundamental
to an ENGINEERING curriculum? God save us... Or rather, let's hope
all the engineers we import from India and China save us - from faulty
automobiles, process plant disasters, collapsing bridges, etc. etc.
A whole class may be more than is necessary, but the inability of the Morton
Thiokol engineers
to produce a convincing presentation of their results which made their
concerns clear to their management
and also convinced NASA was a major contribution to the decision to launch
Challenger...
So, some education in presentation skills seems worthwhile.
...which is best obtained by in fact attending a liberal arts college
and actually taking a broad base of electives that include both written
and verbal communication and group/shared learning processes...as a
physics or math major!
(ducks into nearby nuclear-proofed bomb shelter...:-)
rgb
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