Need of ?Proficiency in English? For Engineering Graduates

Abstract Engineering is the biggest field of study in the world. First of all English is a tool that significantly affect engineering students in academic life. While most of the theories in engineering are taught in English, it requires having good English communication competence. In academic life, engineering students have to deal with the countless English lectures, tutorials, labs, project reports and papers. Most engineering professors in various universities are also conducting lectures in English. The most convenient source of information i.e. internet provides most of the information in English. During the job seeking process, while appearing for interviews and participating in Group Discussions, it is very important to achieve mastery in English proficiency. After securing the job they are required to work in groups since their task seldom be solved by an individual. So, being an engineer requires co-operating and communicating with different people from different parts of the world. English is used as the working language on large extent. In order to co-ordinate with the colleagues, engineers have to speak fluent English. An engineer might interact with technology all day, but that doesn?t mean he has no interaction with other people. He communicates with other engineers, with team members outside of engineering and often with customers as well. Within engineering, effective communication makes it possible to transform requirements into the best possible working or workable solutions. Outside of engineering, effective communication makes it possible to verify the team is working on all of the right requirements and to ensure the resulting solution can, in fact, be implemented. While all engineers should have good communication skills, global engineers face additional challenges, making effective communication an imperative. This paper aims at discussing the need of Proficiency in English for Engineering students, problems being faced by engineers in communicating, encountering the barriers and methods to improve communication skills