Angebote für die Technische Fakultät
Spoken English for Technology Students
Course Topics
- Additive manufacturing and its technologies
- Industry 4.0
- Photovoltaics
- Value chain development
- Bioprinting and tissue engineering
- Circuits, transistors and electrical engineering concepts
Skills
- Spontaneous and prepared speech for engineering topics
- Academic, technical and professional vocabulary
- Improve accuracy, pronunciation, and fluency in spoken technical English.
4. Improve listening and summarizing skills
Materials: To be found on StudOn
Assessment: Vocabulary exam; Listening Exam; Speaking Exam
Written English for Technology Students Level 2
Course Topics
- State of the art papers
- Technical publications
- Cohesion in written English
- Sentence and paragraph structure
- Thematic development
- Transitions & signposting
- Sentence variation and syntactic variability
- Words of degree
- Complex sentence structure
- Peer review
Skills
- Technical and academic writing skills at the university level for engineers
- Structuring, developing written logic, signposting, drafting and peer review
- Expand vocabulary relevant to technical papers
4. Research skills necessary for university-level work
Materials: To be found on StudOn
Assessment: Three in-class writing assignments (1.5-hour writing tasks) that test the students’ knowledge of the course topics we learn throughout the semester.
English for Technology Students Level 3
Course Topics
- Paradigm shifts in modern manufacturing
- Nanotechnology
- Targeting English pronunciation
- Materials science
- Writing summaries in English
- Prosthetics and biomedical engineering
- Wind energy and renewables
- Presentations skills
- Disruptive design in additive manufacturing
Skills
- Spontaneous and prepared speech for engineering disciplines
- Expand engineering vocabulary in academic and professional contexts
- Improve accuracy, pronunciation, and fluency in spoken technical English
- Improve listening and summarizing skills
- Practice and improve presentation skills
Materials: To be found on StudO
Assessment: In-class summary (400 words); in-class presentation (15 minutes)
English for Engineering and Technology
Course Topics (dependent on student interest)
- Robotics
- Environmental issues, e.g. ocean plastics, waste disposal
- Intelligent buildings
- Medical technology
- Cars, e.g. autonomous cars, flying cars
- Renewable energy
- Tools and equipment
- How a simple electric circuit works
- How to describe faults, malfunctions, etc.
Skills
- Expand vocabulary in technical and semi-technical contexts
- Practise writing on technical and semi-technical topics; improve accuracy, avoiding typical errors
- Improve accuracy, pronunciation, and fluency in spoken English
- Practise listening and summarizing skills
Materials: To be found on StudO
Assessment: Written homework assignment; in-class listening comprehension; in-class reading comprehension and vocabulary test
English for Technology Students Level 4
Course Topics
- Smart technologies
- Extemporaneous speech
- Locative and adverbial phrases for descriptive speech
- Wireless power transfer technologies
- Holding effective meetings
- Writing CVs and letters of introduction in English
- Discussing and critiquing research
- Interviewing in English
- Automation and robotics
- The product life cycle
Skills
- Expand engineering vocabulary
- Fine-tune English pronunciation
- Improve listening, summarizing and extemporaneous speaking skills
- Compose a CV and letter of introduction
- Interviews in English for job purposes
Materials: To be found on StudOn
Assessment: CV & letter of introduction (roughly 400 words each); mock interview as final exam (15 minutes)