The primary purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to write and present an engineering report, a task they will often have to fulfil during their careers as practising engineers. The exact nature of these reports varies, but may include proposals, assessments, feasibility studies, evaluations and specifications and communication of results. Since the student will not be expected to have at hand all information normally available to the practising engineer, it is expected that the report will take one of the following forms: a critical review and discussion of the literature on an engineering problem; a report on an engineering project on which the student has worked; or a report on an experimental undertaking. A number of drafts of the report will be submitted according to a fixed time schedule, before the final version is ready for publication. (0/0/30/5/5)~COURSE DELETED in 2011-2012 PREREQUISITE: CIVL 204
