Courses
The Program in Technical communication offers a range of courses across the College, including standalone courses and instruction embedded in first-year, laboratory, and capstone design courses. Faculty integrate communication education with engineering projects, including framing and researching an engineering topic, producing clear and concise writing, developing useful graphics, and constructing logical arguments.
The TC Program offers standalone communication courses to support students from a variety of majors, including Computer Science, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Data Science. These courses cover discipline-specific writing and communication, as well as career documents.
TCHNCLCM 610 provides a structured writing workshop to help graduate students advance their academic and professional writing – including conference presentations, articles, dissertation chapters, and grant proposals.
TechCom 300
Technical Communication for Electrical and Computer Science
TechCom 350
Technical Communication for Robotics
TechCom 380
Technical Communication in IOE
TechCom 496
Advanced Technical Communication for Electrical and Computer Engineering
TechCom 497
Technical Communication for Computer Science and Engineering
TechCom 575
Directed Study
TechCom 610
Technical and Professional Communication For Graduate Students
Engineering 100 is a skill-building course that introduces students to the discipline of engineering and helps them to start developing skills needed in their engineering career at UM: communication, teamwork, problem-solving, design, critical thinking, creativity, technical competence, empathy, and an introduction to engineering methods. In this sense, technical content provides the supporting infrastructure for the course, but the focus of the course is these other, portable skill sets that prepare students for an engineering career. Engineering 100 is a required course for all first-year engineering students; approximately 1,500 students take the course each year.
Notably, Engineering 100 content is split equally between technical and technical communication. Engineering 100 fulfills students’ first-year writing requirement and has since the course’s inception in 1997.
ENGR 100
Introduction to Engineering
Technical communication faculty co-teach a range of disciplinary courses to integrate communication instruction within authentic engineering settings. We collaborate with departments across the College to tailor communication instruction to best support student learning.
AERO 305
Aerospace Engineering Laboratory I
AERO 405
Aerospace Laboratory II
BIOMED 450
Biomedical Design
BIOMED 451
Biomedical Engineering Design, Part I
BIOMED 452
Biomedical Engineering Design, Part II
CEE 345
Geotechnical Engineering
CEE 351
Civil Engineering Materials
CEE 366
Environmental Engineering Laboratory
CEE 402
Professional Issues and Design
CHE 360
Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
CHE 460
Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
CHE 487
Process Simulation and Design
CHE 488
Chemical Product Design I
CHE 489
Chemical Product Design II
IOE 424
Practicum in Production and Service
IOE 481
Practicum in Hospital Systems
ME 395
Laboratory I
ME 495
Laboratory II
MSE 360
Materials Laboratory I
MSE 365
Materials Laboratory II
NAME 470
Foundations of Ship Design
NAME 475
Capstone Design Project
NAME 492
Marine Engineering Laboratory
NERS 491
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Design I
NERS 492
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Design 2
ROB 204
Introduction to Human-Robot Systems
ROB 450
Senior Design
These historical courses are not currently offered.
TechCom 215
Technical Communication for Electrical and Computer Engineering
TechCom 450
Web Page and Site Design
TechCom 498
Technical and Professional Writing for Industry, Government, and Business
TechCom 499
Scientific and Technical Communication
TechCom 501
Selected Topics
TechCom 575
Directed Study