The goal of the English program at the School of Engineering is to provide you with the language skills to help you become and remain competitive.
In every country and culture, English is acknowledged as being the leading language of science and technology. As an engineer, your ability to communicate successfully in English can help you synthesize the latest research, connect with colleagues, and advance your engineering career.
Program
Our English program is designed with Engineers’ communication needs in mind. The program focusses on the key communication skills that engineers need to succeed: listening, speaking, reading and writing. During our program, students learn technical language and terminology and learn how to implement this by describing various processes, products, problems and solutions.
Goal
Our goal is to promote collaboration within teams, develop writing skills to enable students to share research results and new ideas with colleagues, as well as to strengthen their presentation and oral communication skills and build confidence.
Modules
Our English modules are divided into Core modules (English 1-4) and Elective modules:
The Core modules develop the communication skills and specialist English language knowledge of engineering professionals, enabling them to communicate more confidently and effectively. The courses are based on levels B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF).
Students must reach a score of at least 40 points to enter the English program. Students who do not reach this level must complete a Bridging Course.
The Elective modules, based on CEFR levels B2-C2, are designed to improve the communication skills and specialist language knowledge of engineers, enabling them to work more confidently and effectively. They are also designed to give students a strong footing in a broader spectrum of multi-disciplinary subjects in English, bridging Engineering, Business and the Arts.
Develop communicative language skills as well as extend the students' lexical and grammatical knowledge required to enter ecpe2; Cambridge Proficiency course 2.
The Cambridge English: Advanced is an in-depth, high-level language qualification that shows you have the language skills in reading, listening, writing, speaking and use of English that employers and universities are looking for. This 4-credits-course is also available as a two-part course over two semesters (ecae1/ecae2).
Develop communicative language skills as well as extend the students' lexical and grammatical knowledge required to enter ecae2; Cambridge Advanced course 2.
Become acquainted with and learn to derive pleasure from a major form of British/Anglo-Saxon popular culture. Practise and develop otherwise often neglected aspects of English.
Using topical news articles, podcasts and video clips students will activate and develop language skills through reading, listening, discussion and vocab development.
Develop communicative language skills as well as extend the students' lexical and grammatical knowledge required to enter ebec2; Cambridge Business English Certificate, Higher
Activate English through reading and discussion of early English science fiction short stories (1929-1964). Present stories within the anthology in addition to vocabulary activation.
Increase language accuracy, fluency and clarity through a review of the English tense system. Focus on improving skills in additional areas such as verb patterns, prepositions, relative clauses, etc.
Develop and consolidate students' everyday forms of business communication which are vital for an engineer’s communicative competence in the English language.
Use the fundamentals of film studies, such as the history of film, the analysis and theory of film, and the study of film genres, to improve students' English skills through listening, reading, writing, and discussion.
TED Talks feature remarkable people communicating passionately and persuasively. Explore these life-changing stories and develop a deeper understanding of our world.
How Stuff Workswill help students transform their instructional ideas into engaging online content, which is becoming a must-have skill in our digitized and globalized world. Not only will students explore the essentials of describing a process in writing, but transforming that process to video by using a large toolkit for effective meaning-making:linguistic, visual, aural, and kinesthetic.The module will thus enable students to write for a digital audience and use that to compose an effective instructional video.
Express yourself effectively and efficiently on technical topics in English in a variety of contexts.
Placement test
Students entering the college are required to do an online placement test, the results of which are used to place them either in the core or elective modules and are required to complete a total of 8 credits (4 courses) in English during the course of their studies.
