Written Reporting

Written reporting in engineering can involve multiple genres or formats. Resources on this page will help you navigate the formats and rules than govern written documents in engineering.

  • Words to Throw Away, by Yanwar & Morris

    Published on April 25, 2024 Amanda Pradhani Yanwar and John Morris School of Industrial Education and Technology,King Mongkut”s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang,Bangkok 10520, Thailand Corresponding author: john.mo@kmitl.ac.thORCID APY 0000-0001-7162-1339; JM 0000-0003-0539-1189 Copyright retained by authors Abstract English is growing: new words are added rapidly. This makes it increasingly complicated – and ...

  • Managing communication in large-scale projects

    Published on February 28, 2021 Moving from Student to Engineer: Part 2 By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD On top of their day jobs, engineers are often called on to work on the proposals to win business that keeps the company alive. Engineering ...

  • PCS at IEEE Sections Congress, Australia: Ryan Boettger’s Ignite Talk

    Published on October 9, 2017 Brian Traynor and Ryan Boettger represented PCS at IEEE Sections Congress—‚a triennial gathering of IEEE Section leadership—in Sydney, Australia in August this year. 1250 IEEE members from 165 countries participated the event. We were able to introduce PCS and its activities and ...

  • Using Numbers in Technical Documents

    Published on March 16, 2016 For engineers, like physicists, numbers are as important as words in reporting on their work, and carry much of the meaning behind their technical documents. However, how we write these numbers – and how we integrate them with text – may determine a ...

  • Featured Article: A Short Guide to Writing Technical Papers – A Company Perspective

    Published on March 31, 2013 By Kim Siow, ON Semiconductor, SCG Industries. Writing a book or a paper is often associated with scholars’ activities.   After all, scholars leave a legacy of literature to be read by later generations.  This exchange of ideas is best served by the work being ...

  • Podcast: Writing Better RFP Responses

    Published on March 18, 2012 Listen as Debbie Davy, a senior IEEE member and documentation solution leader for DK Consultants, tells you five ways to write betterRFP responses, as well as two ways of quantitatively measuring RFP success. [Script Available] [audio src="https://procomm.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/debbie.mp3" /]

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