The Communicative Engineer: How to Ask, Listen, Write, Speak, and Use Visuals

by Stuart G. Walesh

Application-oriented communication guidebook designed for engineering students and practitioners to improve their asking, listening, writing, speaking, and use of visuals Practicing engineers spend about half their time communicating ideas, facts, and feelings but invest only a small part of their formal education learning how to communicate. The Communicative Engineer addresses this gap. When used as a textbook for students or resource for practitioners, this book shows engineers in all disciplines how to use five communication modes―asking, listening, writing, speaking, and visuals―to participate in or lead successful engineering projects and achieve professional success and significance. Written by a highly qualified author with more than six decades of relevant experience, The Communicative Supplementing the scientific and technical education of engineers, The Communicative Engineer offers engineering students and practitioners in all disciplines the parallel communication knowledge and skills needed to fully realize their potential. Given technology’s ever-increasing role in society, the communicative engineer will be prepared to fill leadership roles.

224 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2024

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[Wisconsin Alumni]

Stuart Walesh PhD’69
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From the author:
Practicing engineers spend about half their time communicating ideas, facts, and feelings but invest only a small part of their formal education learning how to communicate. The Communicative Engineer addresses this gap. When used as a textbook for students or resource for practitioners, this book shows engineers in all disciplines how to use five communication modes — asking, listening, writing, speaking, and visuals — to participate in or lead successful engineering projects and achieve professional success and significance. The book profiles excellent engineer communicators to serve as exemplars. The Communicative Engineer refutes the stereotypical notion that engineers are poor communicators.