Integrating Intercultural Communication into an Engineering Communication Service Class Tutorial

Engineering programs in the US made notable efforts to develop students´ intercultural competence, but they tended to overlook the teaching of intercultural communication. Technical communication teachers can fill this gap by addressing intercultural issues in the service class. This proposal faces challenges: the lack of class time, teacher training, textbooks, and teaching methods. To address these challenges, this tutorial uses various materials and genre-based instruction to integrate intercultural communication into the service class. This approach helps to raise students´ intercultural awareness and sensitivity as they learn engineering communication genres. This tutorial may be used in service classes for other majors.