Self-introduction letter

 

Subject: Self-introduction letter

Dear Professor Brad,

I, Yousof Saira Banu, would like to explain to you about my educational background and my interest for civil engineering. For your convenience, you can address as Saira. Currently, I am in Year 1 civil engineering. I graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with the Diploma in Civil Engineering. In poly, I took additional module, Bahasa Malayu, to upgrade myself. As my 1st year results in poly were exceeding, I was offered a research and development module by Singapore Polytechnics, which taught me to inovate products and launch it in the market. Upon completion of the diploma, I had started my career in LTA. 

In my work, I was expected to have wide range of engineering (civil, mechanical, and electrical) knowledge as I was managing few MRT projects such as DTL2, Tuas West Extension, CCL6, TEL and RTS Link that connects Singapore and Malaysia. In addition, I had to interact with a lot of people from various ministries, agencies, departments, and consultants to design, gazette, build and deliver the project in time. To achieve that successfully, I would required to have  good communication skill.

There were many times, I was required to check for details in the drawings and explain design intend to higher managements. As it was too technical, I had to spend additional time to understand the context before I explain it. If only I had completed digree in civil engineering, I could have reduced the time to required to understand the design intended. Therefore, I was encouraged and movitated to enrol for this course.  

I am an extrovert, so I am always comfortable conversing with strangers. This helped me to mingle and interact with my colleagues easily that somehow expended my network. My wider network allowed me to accomplish a work quickly. However, communicating with higher management and ministries, I tend to be very cautious over my word’s usage. At times, I felt that I was short for words despite my wide range of vocabulary.

My goals in this module are to be even bolder in conveying details to the point and being creative in communication to sustain the attention.   

Regards,

Saira

Group 6

Importance Of Communication Skills For Engineers

 

Strong communication skills in engineering have become imperative as the engineering industry continues to evolve. A report compiled by Marc J Riemer, who worked for UNESCO’s International Centre for Engineering Education as an assistant editor for their publications, was named ‘Communication Skills for the 21st Century Engineer‘. He writes:

“There is ample evidence that graduate engineers lack the required standard of communication skills, particularly when compared to the needs of the industry internationally. Communication skills are a regular feature of an engineer’s job in industry; some graduates employed in industry have identified that education in communication skills needs to be improved, given the demands encountered in industry”

         My Opinion: 

Engineers communication should be effective, engaging and connected. At the same time, Engineers should enhance their caliber and updated at all time about their relevent industry activities to make thier communication exciting and knowelagable.