Communication Skills : Lifeline of Engineers

Abstract

Communication skills are the key to success for professional courses like  engineering. Communication skills help during the course and in the careers to establish themselves and achieve their desired goals. This study discusses the importance of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, Vocabulary skills for communication efficiency and also establishes the importance of communication for engineers. The study also uses a survey conducted with 150 First year students of a private engineering college to understand the level of communication skills of these students. The data from the survey offers insights into how engineering students perceive communication skills, their self-assessment of these skills and the challenges that they encounter. The study also conducts semi-structured inter- views of fifty students to understand whether they are taught different Communication skills and what is their take on the curriculum of communication in their college/university. The data from the survey is rather different from the general belief. The students show good awareness of the communication skills maybe because they are given a lot of training for it.