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Engineering Discourse

CommunityNate Fuss, Andrew Sedano, Justin Cobb, and Alec Pickup

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Discourse Community o What is a Discourse Communityo Engineering Discourse Communityo Jargonso Certain writing and citation styleso How writing is used

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Types of Writing

o Technical Reportso Researcho Memos o E-mailso Project Proposalso Employee Reviews

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Writing Styles

o The style depends on the intended audienceo Passive voice is rarely ever usedo It is too objective and non professionalo High style or formal writing is most popular

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Writing Formats

o IEEE Research Papers and Technical Writingo Chicago Manual Style Reports and Research Paperso MLA Format Simple Papers that are non professional

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Jargono Important so that Engineers can

communicate efficientlyo Engineering Jargon is mostly made up of

technical terms related to designo Use a lot of acronyms

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Jargon Exampleso CADDo ASCEo NSPEo MRPo TDM

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Jargon Purposeso Quick form of communicationo Efficient shorthando Short but still professionalo Easily recognizable

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InterviewWith Professor Don Blackmon

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Real Life Exampleso Duke Power Company

- Four-story elevator for a power plant- Involved specifications, proposals, and reports.

- High Voltage Lines- Design needed to raise the lines 1200 feet, and

then across the river.- Also needed proposals, reports, and

specifications.

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Real Life Exampleso Duke Power Company

- Environmental Reports for state and federal agencies.

- Three or four 3-inch binders of material needed to be submitted

- Proposal to US Department of Energyo Turning weapons grade plutonium into nuclear

fuel.- As many as 100 people working at the same time

on specifications, environmental reports, and proposals.

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Real Life Examples

o National Account Manager for Duke Power- Must be able to write letters, reports, proposals.- Find out problems that companies are having,

and then solve them.o One example, a yard spinning company had

seven 700 horsepower air compressors. o Variation in the power lines needed to be fixed.o A proposal was written to do work to fix the air

compressors.

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Computers in Engineering

o Computers have become an integral part of engineering, despite just recently being invented.- In 1970, computers were only used for advanced

modeling.- Currently, computers can be used for modeling,

prototyping, word processing, and many other tasks.

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Academic & Professional Societies

• National Society of Professional Engineers• American Society of Civil Engineers• Computer Science & Engineering Society

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Forms of Publications

• Blogs • Magazines• Journals• Books• Contracts • Documents

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What are They Like?

• News • Legislative• Educational• Formal• Technical• Employment

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