Technical Report Writing for Engineers

Overview

This course contains 6 lessons, designed to be taken 1 week at a time, to build your capability in creating profession technical engineering reports. Technical reports are a vital tool for engineers to communicate their ideas. This online course introduces technical report writing and teaches the techniques you need to construct well-written engineering reports.

Each lesson, we’ll look at a key section of a technical report and the skills needed to write it. You’ll cover areas such as referencing and citations; presenting equations; diagrams and data; and using language and tenses correctly.

We’ll also talk to practising engineers, as well as students and educators who write and mark technical reports, who’ll give their hands-on advice.

Resources Needed

Just a PC and web browser.

Re-use or Adapt (for Educators)

You can use this resource as-is for your own teaching or you can adapt it to suit your own needs, as long as the full terms of the licence are followed. Simply point your students to this resource's URL, or download the HTML and edit away!