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Asked by davina_xo to Hilly, Lee, Liz, Tadhg, Yasmin on 22 Jun 2015.
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Yasmin Ali answered on 22 Jun 2015:
It’s pretty important… but it’s something you pick up as you go along. At the moment I need to analyse bits of technical reports, but there’s a whole team of us doing it which is good because if I miss something, someone else will pick it up.
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Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 22 Jun 2015:
It is important alright – and writing them is also a important skill! Believe it or not – the shorter the report the better – so it’s easier to read.
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Liz Meddings answered on 23 Jun 2015:
It’s really important to be critical (in a scientific sense) of other people’s claims to ensure that, if I decide to use their product or quote their research, I need to understand what the limitations of their claims are and to include that in my work.
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Lee Margetts answered on 24 Jun 2015:
Great question! Technical writing and communication is a very important skill in engineering. In the University of Manchester, this comes under “management” in the engineering degree and is so important, it is taught and examined as a separate subject.
The client, the designer, the simulation engineer and the construction worker will have very different viewpoints regarding how to build a power station, for example. Each of their roles in the process is very important, but at different times in the life cycle of the project. They all need different types of information about the same engineering structure!
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