Subject 'English for Aviation Engineers'

Year:   2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    

PREREQUISITES FOR ENROLMENT: This is a capstone course to summarize the undergraduate engineering tudents’ theoretical knowledge about aircraft, and their practical skills of professional English language acquired. Hence, the students willing to take this course are required to have completed the Aircraft Construction in English course (for junior year undergraduate students majoring in Aircraft Engineering at EAVA), or some other equivalent course(s) if studied elsewhere.

COURSE OBJECTIVES (WITH THEIR OVERT OUTCOMES): (1) Students take an approach to aircraft structures as engineers do it, using English as a working language with an ultimate goal of honing it for ensuing practical careers at MRO-s, both, home and abroad;
(2) Students become acquainted with algebraic terms in English, and with their use in algebraic expressions, as the aviation engineer’s profession provides;
(3) Within the framework of the writing module in this course, the students learn (through reading and practice) some relevant written technical communication skills that they can use as an asset in their careers on aviation engineering.

This course focuses on studying several structures of aircraft and learning the pertinent terminology, with expanding of students’ lexical/terminological competency in mind. The instruments used for that, include: working with texts, doing practical assignments needed for acquiring information and retention of terms. Videos will also be shown to generate topic-related virtual settings that shall help to facilitate discussion and, thereby, consolidate the material being studied. Search of supplementary/detailed information about the items discussed, followed by short presentations + discussion in each class, will make up the bulk of students’ individual work. The writing module, proceeding from simple to complex, enables the students to learn (through theory and practical assignments) about some accepted conventions of technical writing to be used when in jobs.

2019: CNS/TECH  

2018: CNS/TECH  

2017: TECH  

2016: TECH  

2015: TECH  

2014: TECH  

2013: TECH