ENGRC 3120 - Communications for Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning and Data Science

Spring. 1 credit. Letter grades only.

Corequisite: ORIE 3120. Enrollment limited to: ORIE and INFO Undergraduates during pre-enroll. Satisfies the College of Engineering’s engineering communication requirement.

Staff.

This course prepares students for important ORIE engineering communication activities, e.g., introduction to engineering communication, presentations (proposal, progress, final), visuals and captions, technical reports, and teamwork.

Outcome 1: Written Communication: Identify, research, negotiate, and compose various texts to further a technical or engineering effort with consideration to context and audience.

Outcome 2: Oral Communication/Presentations: Plan, devise, formulate, design, and report information via professional presentations for various technical and stakeholder needs.

Outcome 3: Visual & Multimodal Communication: Visualize, illustrate, and appropriately caption visuals; discriminate between methodologies for creating visuals other multimodal artifacts to support the technical endeavor; create visuals and multimodal artifacts that are accessible.

Outcome 4: Teamwork: Connect, appraise teammates’ contributions, and collaborate in teams; identify, negotiate, assign roles for completing, draft, and finalize communication pieces.