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COMMUNICATION SKILLS ACROSS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM A CASE STUDY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).03      10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).03      Published : Mar 2022

Communication Skills across Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study

Abstract

    Effective communication skills occupy key importance in the world of work. This study aimed to investigate the standing of communication skills courses in the engineering curriculum taught to engineering students. Additionally, it assessed whether all engineering departments implement the same credit hour course for engineering departments. The data collection source was Prospectus-2021 of Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology Nawabshah. Discourse Analysis was the data analysis method. Findings exhibit that communication skills are taught as a single subject in the university and some engineering departments implement it as a 2-credithour and some 3-credit hour course. Unexpectedly, the department of chemical engineering implements it as(1) credit only. Findings endorse employers’ concerns that engineering graduates passing out from engineering universities are not ready for industry jobs.Research results would guide engineering universities of Pakistan to revisit engineering communication skills courses to bring them at par with industry skill needs.

    Curriculum, Communication Skills, Industry, Engineering Universities

    (1) Inayatullah Kakepoto
    Professor, Department of English, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Science and Technology, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.
    (2) Abdullah Laghari
    Lecturer, Department of English, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Science and Technology, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.
    (3) Tania Laghari
    Department of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazirabad, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Kakepoto, Inayatullah, Abdullah Laghari, and Tania Laghari. 2022. "Communication Skills across Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study." Global Language Review, VII (I): 23 - 32 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).03

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    HARVARD : KAKEPOTO, I., LAGHARI, A. & LAGHARI, T. 2022. Communication Skills across Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study. Global Language Review, VII, 23 - 32.

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    MHRA : Kakepoto, Inayatullah, Abdullah Laghari, and Tania Laghari. 2022. "Communication Skills across Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study." Global Language Review, VII: 23 - 32

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    OXFORD : Kakepoto, Inayatullah, Laghari, Abdullah, and Laghari, Tania (2022), "Communication Skills across Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study", Global Language Review, VII (I), 23 - 32

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    TURABIAN : Kakepoto, Inayatullah, Abdullah Laghari, and Tania Laghari. "Communication Skills across Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study." Global Language Review VII, no. I (2022): 23 - 32. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).03