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Electrical Engineering - ELEN 581

Topics in Electrical Engineering

“Writing and Documentation in Engineering”

• Define initial project objective, scope, motivation, and contribution.
• Document previous engineering/research experiments and references.
• Identify and summarize essential reference material.
• Identify and utilize standard writing and documentation styles.
• Understand APA writing style.
• Understand MLA writing style.
• Understand IEEE writing style.
• Select technical research topic and define the objectives.
• Write/revise the issue, scope and outline the contents of a project.
• Write/revise the project motivation and contribution.
• Plan the organization of the chapters/sections in a report.
• Plan the logical flow of the chapters and sections.
• Plan the organization and placement of paragraphs .
• Prepare progress report documentation and write meeting reports.
• Prepare/write technical literature review and summary.
• Develop writing style for preparing technical reports.
• Plan writing engineering or scientific reports in steps.
• Oral and written presentations of a technical report.

Prepared by: Matthew Aghili, Ph.D.