An analysis of the technical communications practices reported by Israeli and US aerospace engineers and scientists

As part of phase 4 of the NASA/DoD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project, two pilot studies were conducted that investigated the technical communications practices of Israeli and US aerospace engineers and scientists. Both studies had the same five objectives: first, to solicit the opinions of aerospace engineers and scientists regarding the importance of technical communications to their profession; second, to determine the use and production of technical communications by aerospace engineers and scientists; third, to seek their views about the appropriate content of an undergraduate course in technical communications: fourth, to determine aerospace engineers´ and scientists´ use of libraries, technical information centers, and online database; and fifth, to determine the use and importance of computer and information technology to them