The Importance of Communication Skills for Engineers
"I contend that we (engineers) are undervalued because of our widespread inability to explain what we do to the general public (and why it is so important). It is one of the hardest goals to accomplish, to be able to boil down difficult concepts into a short and easily understood presentation or elevator pitch." - Marybeth Miceli, President, Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, USA (2011) I think that this statement accurately describes the situation that engineers around the world face. Often time while we are able to understand the topic at a deeper level due to the background of knowledge that we have. Explaining it to investors or the general public might be harder as they might not have the same background of knowledge that an engineer has on the topic to be able to understand the concepts and technical details of certain inventions. For example, if we (engineers) explain about how we applied the concept of "Statics and Dynamics" into our robot project to a fitne...