1 The Interweaving of Technical Communication in Engineering Courses Throughout the Curriculum

in several courses that span the three years that students are in the Department. These courses include both design courses at the sophomore and senior levels and laboratory measurement courses at the junior and senior levels. This program, which graduates more than 220 undergraduates a year, has become a success. For instance, this program has been named one of three model communication programs for the more than 75 departments of Virginia Tech. Also, our spring 2004 survey of 313 alumni showed that technical communication was the area of the curriculum with the most improvement over the past four years—when the program took shape. This paper details the learning objectives of our program and the communication assignments and instruction in the curriculum to fulfill those objectives