Why is communication necessary in an engineering environment? Question: seeking information from another person. Collaborate or cooperate with other people Inform: enabling or empowering other people to make use of information. Learn from another person how to perform a task requiring technical expertise. Help another person to learn how to perform a task or how to do something to help achieve desired objective s. Convey the details of the intent behind the design of an artefact or process so that others can manufacture it with the predicted attributes or operate the process successfully. Advocate adoption of a particular technical approach. Ask about the advantages and disadvantages of competing products or services, learn about future developments in competing products or services. Pose a technical query: seek additional inf ormation to help make effective use of a design, process or artefact. Specification: write a document that specifies a required package of in formation, artefact, process or material. Write a report to be placed on record: a succinct statement summa rising a technical issue to record what was known and by whom at a particular point in time. Tell a joke: a brief story that, when related to an understanding audience, enables them to imagine circumstances which they find amusing. Seek to understand other people and learn about their opinions, viewpoints, language and interests Coordinate: influence another person to collaborate or cooperate with the communicator to conscientiously perform some specialised technical work to an agreed schedule. Influence perceptions: conve rsing with another person in a way that encourages the person to change his or her perception about other people, or on a technical issue.
