Task 3: The Importance of communication skills for engineers

 “I contend that we (engineers) are undervalued because of our widespreadinability to explain what we do to the general public (and why it is so important).It is one of the hardest goals to accomplish, to be able to boil down difficultconcepts into a short and easily understood presentation or elevator pitch.”Marybeth Miceli, President, Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, USA (2011)


When asked the general public about what engineers do, most would answer that they just do

mathematics, unable to separate engineers from mathematicians. There are many specialisation in

engineering that can be hard to explain it all to people with little to no knowledge about the subject.

It can also be an overload of information. While it is true that engineers does mathematics, it is

only the language that engineers use to communicate with one another and because it is not a

common language with the general public, they are not able to understand engineers. Not only

that, some basic foundation is required to understand engineering.

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