| Educational guide School of Engineering |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Electronic and Automation Engineering (2010) |
 Subjects |
| TECHNICAL ENGLISH |
| Methodologies |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
| Subject | TECHNICAL ENGLISH | Code | 17204102 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | First | 2Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Description | |
| Introductory activities | At the beginning of the course, students will have to take an online placement test and send their results to their instructor, indicating the level of English achieved. |
| Seminars | Throughout the course, the instructor will explain the main characteristics of Technical English in Engineering. Special emphasis will be placed on students’ improvement of their English language skills in technical contexts. To do so, they will be provided with the necessary resources to read and write technical texts, as well as to listen to and talk about different topics related to their field of study. |
| Presentations / expositions | Throughout Unit 8, the instructor will provide guidelines to deliver an efficient oral presentation related to the fields of Engineering, including how to deal with the Question and Answer period. Students will become familiar with usual expressions used when delivering presentations in English. Students are required to put into practice these strategies and expressions when delivering their own oral presentation at the end of the course. |
| Assignments | Throughout the different units of the course, students will learn the most important grammar characteristics of technical discourse in Engineering and will use them for their course project. In order to complete their course project, students will have to find information on a given topic related to their discipline; then they will have to write a document in powerpoint format and will use it to deliver their oral presentation in groups before the end of the course. |
| ICT practicals | Throughout the course, students have to complete different tasks (containing texts, mp3 files or videocasts) related to a specific aspect or topic of Engineering which should be submitted via Moodle within the set deadlines. These tasks are used to practice the different aspects and skills dealt with in class. |
| PBL (Problem Based Learning) | This course places emphasis on group work by enhancing the collaborative writing of documents and the oral presentation of a topic related to Engineering as a problem to be solved in which different members discuss the best approach. |
| Personal tuition | During the course, instructors will be available during office hours to solve doubts or answer queries regarding "the course project" and the oral presentation. |
