{"id":3151,"date":"2022-08-18T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/?page_id=3151"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:30:14","slug":"es2631-critique-and-communication-of-thinking-and-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/undergraduate-courses\/es2631-critique-and-communication-of-thinking-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"ES2631 – Critique and Communication of Thinking and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

\n\t\t\tES2631 – Critique and Communication of Thinking and Design\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\tDescription\t<\/h4>\n

This course equips students with competencies that enable students to analyze, critique, and communicate engineering and design ideas in a systematic and thoughtful manner. Students will be introduced to the Engineering Reasoning Framework (Paul, Niewoehner and Elder, 2019), as well as key principles of effective academic communication. Students will learn to apply the critical thinking framework and communication principles to critique ideas expressed in different genres and to convey these in critique essays. They will also engage in a group project aimed at promoting critical analysis and communication in teams that will culminate in a team academic oral presentation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tObjectives\t<\/h4>\n\t

By the end of the course, students should be able to:<\/p>\n

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  1. critically analyze ideas in the field of engineering;<\/li>\n
  2. \ncommunicate critical analysis of engineering ideas clearly and coherently;\n<\/li>\n
  3. \nwork effectively in a team to develop and present an engineering conceptual design;\n<\/li>\n
  4. \ndemonstrate an understanding of key principles and features of communication for engineers in different contexts\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \n\t\t\tAssessment\t<\/h4>\n\t