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Electrical Engineering - ELEN 481

Topics in Electrical Engineering

• Document previous engineering/research experiments and references.
• Identify and summarize essential reference material.
• Identify and utilize standard writing and documentation styles.
• Understand APA writing style.
• Understand MLA writing style.
• Understand IEEE writing style.
• Select technical research topic and define the objectives.
• Write/revise the issue, scope and outline the contents of a project.
• Write/revise the project motivation and contribution
• Plan the organization of the chapters/sections in a report.
• Plan the logical flow of the chapters and sections.
• Plan the organization and placement of paragraphs
• Prepare progress report documentation and write meeting reports.
• Prepare/write technical literature review and summary
• Develop writing style for preparing technical reports.
• Plan writing engineering or scientific reports in steps.
• Oral and written presentations of a technical report

Prepared by Dr. Seyed M. Aghili