Technical English course details

 

In the Name of God

 

The course text book:

Oxford English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

by Eric H. Glendinning, Norman Glendinning

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

 

The book can be found here.

 

The book is written for the use of both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering students. Therefore, we will cover just some units of this book. The Units studied in this course can be found below:

 

Unit 1: Engineering - what’s it all about?

Unit 6: The electric motor

Unit 11: Washing machine

Unit 13: Lasers

Unit 16: Scales

Unit 17: Portable Generator

Unit 23: Maglev train

Unit 28: Robotics

Unit 29: careers in engineering

 

Grading Details:

Final Exam: 10

Exercises (translation-Writing-other…): 6

Oral Presentation: 4

Bonuses and Penalties:

Absence (at each session): -0.5

Oral Presentation before 1 Ordibehesht: +1

Presence at all the sessions: +1

 

Four Important skills in any language:

- reading

- listening

- writing

- speaking