ENGRC 4590

Physical Design Communication in Biological Engineering

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

ENGRC 4590 prepares students for important biological engineering communication activities, e.g., introduction to science/biological engineering communication, laboratory notebooks, presentations (proposal, progress), visuals and captions, technical proposals, and teamwork. Students work in teams to assess a problem and propose a physical design solution that attends to a community partner’s need for their senior design project, the communication and research portions of which will be addressed in this course. This course is a pre-req for BEE 4590, which is offered in fall semesters.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA, 2021FA

Learning Outcomes

• Written Communication: Identify, research, negotiate, and compose various texts to further a technical or engineering effort with consideration to context and audience.
• Oral Communication/Presentations: Plan, devise, formulate, design, and report information via professional presentations for various technical and audience needs.
• Visual & Multimodal Communication: Visualize, illustrate, and appropriately caption visuals; discriminate between methodologies for creating visuals other multimodal artifacts to support the technical endeavor; create visuals and multimodal artifacts that are accessible.
• Teamwork: Connect, appraise teammates’ contributions, and collaborate in teams; identify, negotiate, assign roles for completing, draft, and finalize communication pieces.
• Research: Perform, collect, analyze, evaluate, and integrate deep-dive research that includes both secondary (database) and primary (original) research.

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