Extended Abstract: Developing a Community of Practice to Support Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Students Through an Integrated Communications Program at Virginia Tech
作者：
Burgoyne, Christine Bala;Grandstaff, Kim
通讯作者：
Burgoyne, CB
作者机构：
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
通讯机构：
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
语种：
英文
关键词：
Community of practice,engineering communications program,Graduate student identities,Graduate student writing groups
期刊：
IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
ISSN：
2158-091X
年：
2023
页码：
164-165
会议名称：
IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)
会议时间：
JUL 17-20, 2023
会议地点：
Ithaca, NY
摘要：
The Engineering Communications Program (ECP), is a discipline-based communications program that provides instruction in written, oral, and visual communications within the undergraduate curriculum at Virginia Tech's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). The ECP was recently tasked to assist the department's graduate program in efforts to improve the graduate students' scholarly output and develop students' communication competencies needed for graduate level output. We propose an Assessment of Stakeholders' Expectations of Graduate Students' Communications Skills, a semester-long Graduate Writing Group, and a Communications and Professional Development Wo...
