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New media communication skills for engineers and IT professionals : trans-national and trans-cultural demands

Title
New media communication skills for engineers and IT professionals : trans-national and trans-cultural demands / Arun Patil, Henk Eijkman, and Ena Bhattacharyya.
Publication
Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, ©2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Patil, Arun S.
  • Eijkman, Henk, 1948-
  • Bhattacharyya, Ena, 1966-
Description
xiii, 258 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
"This book provides new and experienced practitioners, academics, employers, researchers and students, with international examples of best practices in new as well as traditional communication skills in increasingly trans-cultural, digitalized, hypertext environments"--
Subject
  • Communication in engineering
  • Engineering > Vocational guidance
  • Information technology > Vocational guidance
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Megatrends in Engineering and Technology Education: A Call for the Communicative Imagination / Henk Eijkman -- ch. 2 21st Century Education Technologies for Engineers and IT Professionals / Chan Chang Tik -- ch. 3 Enculturation into Engineering Professional Practice: Using Legitimate Peripheral Participation to Develop Communication Skills in Engineering Students / Karsten E. Zegwaard -- ch. 4 Communication Framework to Empower 21st Century Engineers and IT Professionals / Ahmad Sofwan Nathan Abdullah -- ch. 5 Linguistic and Cultural Skills for Communication in Global Workplaces of the 21st Century / Carmela Briguglio -- ch. 6 Conceptual Mapping, Visualisation, and Systems Thinking in Engineering / Carol Russell -- ch. 7 Embedding Communication Skills in the Study of the Discipline / Katrina Falkner -- ch. 8 Engineering Students' Self-Perceived Communication Competence and Technical Presentation Anxiety: A Case Study / Sarjit Kaur.
ISBN
  • 9781466602434
  • 1466602430
  • 9781466602441
  • 1466602449
  • 9781466602458
  • 1466602457
LCCN
2011044978
OCLC
  • ocn768417859
  • 768417859
  • SCSB-9136571
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library