You´ll never get ahead in engineering if you can´t make yourself understood

The engineering program at Clemson University (South Carolina) incorporates communication projects within the regular courses. Presentations on course assignments are regarded as “projects to be managed” just as technical problems are handled. The project stages are definition, planning, production, presentation, and post-analysis. A miniproposal is used to launch each project, giving the audience description, communication objectives, approach to the presentation, content outline, budget, and schedule.