Technical Communication for Applied Engineering Physics

Catalog description

This course is partnered with AEP 3640 ; students must enroll in both courses. This course will fulfill the Engineering Communication Requirement when taken with AEP 3640 successfully. Students will focus on fundamentals, theory, and practice of computer-aided control of equipment and data acquisition in an applied physics laboratory. Students will also be introduced to the ways in which that work is communicated in lab notebooks; methods for communicating with team members using project management strategies and channels; and genre-focused structures for reaching other experts in the field using both primary and secondary materials, data, visualizations, and sources. Students will engage in the practice of scientific and engineering research and development, along with the articulation of that work. Students will develop effective writing and communication skills both as a tool for practicing engineering design and for the recording, assessing, analyzing, and sharing of knowledge through lab notebooks, team communication structures, drafting, revisioning, and editing. There is a final formal scientific article written by the students in teams based on the content and lab work from AEP 3640 .