Task 3: The Importance of communication skills for engineers
“Without clear lines of communication, our ideas would stay within our own small development teams instead of becoming mature products. While this is obvious to those of us who have become experienced engineers, the real question is: Why is it lost to us when we are engineering students?” Akbar R Khan, Software Systems Engineer, USA, "Good Communication Is Essential..." (2014) “Without clear lines of communication, our ideas would stay within our own small development teams instead of becoming mature products." In my opinion, what Mr Khan is saying is that, if an engineer has an idea of making a new product or has ways to make something better but only discusses with his or her own team instead of branching out to supervisors, project managers or marketing department, their idea will only be an idea at the end of the day. If one wants to produce something, he or she has to speak up and share with more than just within the team so that with multiple feedbacks and assista...