Communication & Writing Skills for Engineers

Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, BangkokManagers, engineers, attorneys, and other highly paid workers spend up to 85% of their time writing, or reading other people’s writing. The cost to an organisation of writing is an average of $150 per page. So a 10-page report costs $1,500 to write. But what is the cost of a poorly written report?

• An oil company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing a new pesticide... only to discover that the formula had already been worked out five years earlier - by one of the same company’s technicians. He wrote his report so poorly that no one had finished reading it

• A nuclear plant supervisor ordered ‘ten foot long lengths’ of radioactive material. Instead of getting the ten-foot lengths it needed, the plant received ten one-foot lengths, at a cost so great it was later classified

• Prof D Winsor showed ‘a history of miscommunication’ to be one of the root causes of the Challenger disaster in 1986

People form an impression of a presenter and his message within 3 – 30 seconds. If it’s a poor impression, people will disengage from the presentation. If that happens, the presentation, the report and the information are largely ignored. What is the cost of that?

When is Communication & Writing Skills for Engineers?

The next dates haven't been confirmed. The last edition we have on record was 25–27 Jun 2012.

Where is it held?

The last edition we have was at The Royal Orchid Sheraton, Bangkok, Thailand.