Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)
COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER TOOLSEDAA15
Credits: 8. Grading scale: TH. Cycle: G1 (First Cycle). Main field: Technology. Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. EDAA15 overlaps following cours/es: EDA602 and MMT656. Compulsory for: IBYA1, IBYI1, IBYV1. Course coordinator: Anders Robertson, Design Methodology. Assessment: Marked tests belonging to each section of the communication part of the course. The final course mark is the integer part of the weighted mean values. The Cad-, Excel-, Word- and PowerPoint tests are marked G/U (approved or failed) and should all be approved to get a final course mark. Well done Cad and Excel test can raise the final course mark. Home page: http://www.caad.lth.se.

Aim
The course aims to let the student be familiar with both the practical and theoretical foundations of oral and written presentation. The written presentation part of the course is enlarged to include fundamental technical engineering troubleshooting.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents
The course deals with fundamental communication (both oral and written) on an engineering basis. The student is trained practically in public performance, rhetoric, going into opposition and the methodology of writing reports. To be able to handle the written communication the course also includes fundamental parts of a modern calculating application, wordprocessing application, presentations application and a traditional 2D cad applicatiuon.

Literature
Björklund, M och Paulsson, U: Seminarieboken – att skriva, presentera och opponera. Studentlitteratur 2003.
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