These graduate students critique, comment, and grade in both the technical and communication areas while also teaching the above laboratories. The issues regarding faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students, and orientation for the undergraduates who are impacted by the plan will be addressed. The ultimate goal involves leading engineering students into the realization communication is important because it is being evaluated by fellow engineers and that those evaluators will also improve their own skills because of their need to focus on how they communicate. It is highly unlikely that anyone can be found who doesn't have something to say about communication. It can be broad generalizations about speech patterns or highly specialized notions of exactly what word to use in a technical document.
Communication is part of our existence.
From our first cries when we are born to the movements we make as we leave the world, we are communicating either to ourselves or to the world around us. Because this activity is so much a part of our lives, we cannot separate it from any of the other activities that we perform. Communication is not an entity unto itself. It is embroiled in all the activities of existence. It is, therefore, vitally important that engineers realize the place of communication in their lives.