Engineering Communications

ID: 1595
Course type: vocational and applied
Course coordinator: Rosić Vitas B. Maja
Lecturers: Rosić Vitas B. Maja
Contact: Rosić Vitas B. Maja
Level of studies: B.Sc. (undergraduate) Academic Studies – Mechanical Engineering
ECTS: 6
Final exam type: written
Department: Department of Information Technologies in Mechanical Engineering

Lectures

  • Semester 2, position 2

Goal

• Understanding the importance and gaining fundamental skills in the preparation and execution of communication with different customers (management, professional services, colleagues, and clients). • Introduction to the creation, presentation, and use of engineering documentation. Computer processing of documentation. • Identifying the basic functional units in companies and learning about the mutual communication of these entities. • Understanding the basic documents that characterize the activities of companies. Preparation for the computer processing of these documents.

Outcome

The acquired knowledge enables the listener to: • Prepare, create, and display their own skills. • Prepare, write, and present a report on accomplished work. • Prepare, deliver, and manage a presentation or discussion. • Recognize the basic functional units of a company and understand their interdependence. • Identify the basic documentation of a company. • Prepare basic documentation for computer processing.

Theoretical teaching

Communication (oral and written; parameters; application of computers in communication). Organizing communication (structure and content; defining, evaluating, and managing information; organizing ideas and facts). About speech (voice and body language; audience and managing questions; assembly and managing discussion). Engineering documentation (contracts, offers, CV, invoices, bills, technological documentation, reports). The enterprise as a generator of information (organizational units of small and medium enterprises; inventories; standards; accounting). About some documents (inventories; warehouse list; material card). About coding systems (definition and application; bar code; parallel coding system; application in inventory). BOM (Bill of Materials) (modular, hierarchical, two-level, generic components; obtaining the component list). Archiving, sending, protecting documentation (number of copies, storage location; sending documentation; encryption). About presentation (collection, processing, selection of information; organization and planning of presentation).

Practical teaching

Practical exercises consist of learning how to create technical documentation and communication documents. Appropriate software is also used. The core of the practical training is the development of two projects: a CV and a presentation on a selected problem in information technology.

Attendance requirement

Without preconditions.

Resources

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Assigned hours

Total assigned hours: 75

Active teaching (theoretical)

New material: 25
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 5

Active teaching (practical)

Auditory exercises: 0
Laboratory exercises: 15
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 5
Project: 10
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Knowledge test

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 2
Review and grading of the project: 5
Test: 0
Test: 3
Final exam: 5

Knowledge test (100 points total)

Activity during lectures: 5
Test/test: 15
Laboratory practice: 15
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 15
Project: 20
Final exam: 30
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 0

Literature

Grätzer G., Practical LaTeX, Springer, 2014.; Kottwitz S., LaTeX Beginner's Guide: Create visually appealing texts, articles, and books for business and science using LaTeX, 2nd Edition, Packt Publishing, 2021.; Griffiths F. D., Higham J. D., Learning LaTeX, 2nd Edition, SIAM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016.; Griffiths F. D., Higham J. D., Learning LaTeX, 2nd Edition, SIAM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016.