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The Department of Mechanical Engineering Writing Program
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is committed to ensuring that
every one of its graduates is a competent writer. Good writing is critical to
mechanical engineering and good writing is valued by employers and
graduate school research advisors.
Writing Program Description
The department has developed a description of its writing program. In includes
a list of the key characteristics of engineering writing, the writing abilities that
every engineer should have and an outline of how writing is infused throughout
the mechanical engineering curriculum.
Writing Program Description (October, 2009)
Engineering Writing Style Guides
The department has developed a series of writing style guides, used in our
undergraduate courses, that cover the most important forms of
writing used by engineers. The department suggests that you make use of these
style guides for your writing assignments.
Writing Problem Sets
Writing Lab Reports
Writing Design Reports
For more information about the ME Writing Program, please contact Professor Will Durfee,
wkdurfee@umn.edu.
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