English 218 Technical and Scientific Communication. In this class you learn to write in the same fashion that you would as a professional in the engineering field. It is in this class that students learn to express technical terms and complicated information in a manner that can easily be understood. The last required English class is English 265G which is entitled Principles of Human Communication. This final writing requirement enables the student to communicate with other professionals, business clients, or just socially among other people. These English classes will help any student be able to write effectively in his/her field as an electrical engineer. So what is the next logical step? Finding out what writing is all about as an Electrical Engineer. To find out what kind of writing is expected from an Electrical Engineer, I looked through some of the major periodicals in the Branson Library in the section TK which is for engineering oriented texts. In my interview with Dr. Prasad, he recommended some of the more respected and popular periodicals read by most professionals in the field. His two top recommendations, Electronic Engineering and Control Systems were both easily found in the library. Both magazines had the same essential layout as well as did the individual articles within them. Essays written in the field of Electrical Engineering tend to be very technical in language and can be difficult to read without a knowledge of all the professional terminology. The article in Control Systems discussed the many possibilities of AUVs which are essentially unmanned vehicles. Some of the themes discussed were the many uses of AUVs, challenges facing designers, a detailed description of each type of AUV and what it does specifically, a brief description of what is to come in the near future of this technology, and finally a conclusion. The article also included three pictures which helped to visually describe what the author was wri...
