{"57663":{"#nid":"57663","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Shop Talk 101: Integrating workplace communication into undergraduate engineering curricula","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy are communication skills more important than ever for engineers?\u003C\/strong\u003E First, in today\u0027s workplace, engineers increasingly interact with non-engineers such as marketing and call center personnel, their CTOs and their CEOs. Second, technological communication tools have become central to engineering work. The new tools, which recent graduates are often assumed to know, include various e-mail systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project and Access. Third, practicing engineers are increasingly responsible for their own communication, including wordsmithing and proofreading that was once done by secretaries. Fourth, practicing engineers interact with others person-to-person in meetings. The advent of office technology has not erased the need for personal communication as some once predicted. If anything, office technology has increased the need and opportunities for personal communication.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAppearing in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news-info.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s News \u0026amp; Information website\u003C\/a\u003E online.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy Judith Shaul Norback, Donna C. Llewellyn and Jill R. Hardin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.lionhrtpub.com\/orms\/orms-8-01\/norbackfr.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full article at the ORMS Today website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022ltgreen\u0022\u003EOriginally published in the August 2001 issue of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.lionhrtpub.com\u0022\u003EORMS Today\u003C\/a\u003E.  Copyright\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2001-11-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:35","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2001-11-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2001-11-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}