It consists of a series of intensive workshops supported by seminars to provide an on-going, regular exposure to communication issues for undergraduate engineering students, starting in the freshman year and continuing through their senior year. Workshops cover fundamentals in the early years and then deal with more advanced topics and professional scenarios in the senior years.
Seminars provide supporting insights into areas such as effective graphics.
During the second year staff introduced advanced workshops and new aspects of the program that proved effective and elicited a positive response from all constituencies. The advanced workshops, the inaugural seminar and the first faculty workshop were all well received. The student participants' assessments averaged four on a five-point scale. Staff developed approaches designed to solve this problem and its associated issues. The first faculty workshop helped participants to understand the program, the training approach, and how it complements and enhances the existing curriculum.