About
CEE’s Engineering Communication Program was created in 1998 through a generous donation from the Mundy family. The initial goal of the program was to establish a model of engineering education to teach civil and environmental engineering students necessary communication skills and strategies within the context of their discipline.
The Engineering Communication Program highlights an in-house model, meaning that communication is integrated into the curricula of engineering courses rather than being offered as stand-alone classes.
This approach allows a wide range of communication skills and strategies to be taught within the context of the discipline—including adapting engineering research to technical and nontechnical audiences, responding to complex engineering contexts, considering ethical issues such as GenAI, writing and presenting various kinds of project documents, and displaying data visually. The Program Director serves as a co-instructor or guest lecturer in several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Undergraduate Program
On the undergraduate level, the Program Director integrates active learning about written, visual, oral, electronic, and nonverbal communication directly into engineering courses. She does this by co-teaching the core CEE engineering courses, frequently lecturing in elective engineering courses, providing learning modules (and related materials) for students, and developing teaching materials for colleagues. Additionally, she guides and supports undergraduate students—both individual students and student teams—through various kinds of written documents and oral presentations.
Graduate Program
At the graduate level, the Program Director teaches a stand-alone course in engineering communication (CEE 6754) that addresses ways to address audiences purposely across a wide range of technical documents, create effective visual displays of quantitative data, and develop and deliver professional oral presentations. The Program Director also helps graduate students prepare theses and dissertations, journal articles, conference presentations, and fellowship applications.
For more information contact:
Olga Menagarishvili, PhD
Office: SEB 325
404.385.0347
olga.menagarishvili@ce.gatech.edu