Studies indicate that communications and information-related activities take up a substantial portion of an engineer's work week; therefore, effective communications and information-use skills are one of the key engineering competencies that early career-stage aerospace engineers and scientists must possess to be successful. Feedback from industry rates communications and information-use skills high in terms of their importance to engineering practice; however, this same feedback rates the communications and information-use skills of early career-stage engineers low. To gather adequate and generalizable data about the communications and information-related activities of entry-level aerospace engineers and scientists, we surveyed 264 members of the AIAA who have no more than 1-5 years of aerospace engineering work experience. To learn more about the concomitant communications norms, we compared the results of this study with data (1,673 responses) we collected from student members of the AIAA and with data (341 responses) we collected from a study of aerospace engineering professionals. In this paper, we report selected results from these studies that focused on the communications practices and information-related activities of early career-stage U.S. aerospace engineers and scientists in the workplace.


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    Titel :

    NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Paper 53: From Student to Entry-Level Professional: Examining the Technical Communications Practices of Early Career-Stage US Aerospace Engineers and Scientists


    Beteiligte:
    T. E. Pinelli (Autor:in) / K. Holloway (Autor:in) / R. O. Barclay (Autor:in) / J. M. Kennedy (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1995


    Format / Umfang :

    10 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch