Basic Team Communications

Abstract

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Understand a meeting’s purpose.

Prepare a meeting agenda.

Manage the meeting follow-on process.

Participate in a brainstorming session.

Prepare and deliver a quality presentation.

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change… Engineers operate at the interface between science and society…

—Dean Gordon Brown; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Engineering is the science and art of efficient dealing with materials and forces…it involves the most economic design and execution…assuring, when properly performed, the most advantageous combination of accuracy, safety, durability, speed, simplicity, efficiency, and economy possible for the conditions of design and service.

—J. A. L. Waddell, Frank W. Skinner, and H. E. Wessman