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Aziz, A R A, Yi, H S and Jaafar, M (2006) Competitive resources of private housing developers: the Malaysian perspective. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 4(01), 71–80.

Bichard, E (2009) The application of sustainable behaviour change strategies in three built environment companies. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 7(01), 7–20.

Boustras, G, Bratskas, R, Tokakis, V and Efstathiades, A (2011) Safety awareness of practitioners in the Cypriot manufacturing sector. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 9(01), 19–31.

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Butler, L J and Bright, G (2010) Control strategy for a mobile self-balancing materials handling platform. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 8(01), 6–27.

Cardoso, A F S P and Torkkeli, M (2014) Innovation in footwear companies – does it pay off?. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 12(01), 128-54.

Carswell, A T and Smith, S (2009) The greening of the multifamily residential sector. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 7(01), 65–80.

Chen, H-Y, Chang, Y-M and Chang, H-C (2016) A numerical definition-based systematic design approach for coupling consumers' image perception with product form. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 14(01), 134-59.

Chileshe, N (2007) Quality management concepts, principles, tools and philosophies: A valid methodology for deployment within UK construction-related SMEs. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 5(01), 49–67.

Chileshe, N and Haupt, T C (2010) The effect of age on the job satisfaction of construction workers. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 8(01), 107–18.

Chinyio, E, Suresh, S and Salisu, J B (2018) The impacts of monetary rewards on public sector employees in construction: A case of Jigawa state in Nigeria. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 16(01), 125-42.

Dadzie, J, Runeson, G and Ding, G (2019) Assessing determinants of sustainable upgrade of existing buildings. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology , 18(01), 270–92.

Dang, C N and Le-Hoai, L (2016) Critical success factors for implementation process of design-build projects in Vietnam. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 14(01), 17-32.

Deepak, B B V L, Bahubalendruni, R M V A, Rao, C A and Nalini, J (2017) Computer aided weld seam tracking approach. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 15(01), 31-43.

Desta, S, Root, D and Diederichs, C J (2006) The practice of project management office (PMO) concept within the German architect, engineer, contractor (AEC) sector. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 4(01), 46–59.

Dhandapani, K and Sathi, R R (2011) Embedded controlled low-frequency AC to high-frequency AC converter fed induction heater. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 9(01), 7–18.

Duksh, Y S, Kaushik, B K, Sarkar, S and Singh, R (2013) Analysis of propagation delay and power with variation in driver size and number of shells in multi walled carbon nanotube interconnects. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 11(01), 19-33.

Edwards, D J and Holt, G D (2008) Construction workers' health and safety knowledge: Initial observations on some test-result data. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 6(01), 65–80.

Edwards, D J, Owusu-Manu, D-G, Baiden, B, Badu, E and Love, P E (2017) Financial distress and highway infrastructure delays. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 15(01), 118-32.

Emetere, M E (2019) A modified approach to estimating thermodynamic impact on buildings. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 17(01), 115–35.

English, J and Hay, P (2015) Black South African women in construction: cues for success. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 13(01), 144-64.

English, J, Haupt, T C and Smallwood, J J (2006) Women, construction and health and safety (H&S): South African and Tanzanian perspectives. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 4(01), 18–28.

Fernando, N G, Amaratunga, D and Haigh, R (2014) The career advancement of the professional women in the UK construction industry: The career success factors. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 12(01), 53-70.

Fore, S and Mbohwa, C (2015) Greening manufacturing practices in a continuous process industry: Case study of a cement manufacturing company. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 13(01), 94-122.

Frödell, M, Josephson, P-E and Lindahl, G (2008) Swedish construction clients' views on project success and measuring performance. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 6(01), 21–32.

Georgiou, A, Haritos, G, Fowler, M and Imani, Y (2016) Advanced phase powertrain design attribute and technology value mapping. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 14(01), 115-33.

Gharehbaghi, K and McManus, K (2019) TIS condition monitoring using ANN integration: an overview. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 17(01), 204–17.

Ghiasi, V, Omar, H, Huat, B B K, Muniandi, R and Yusof, Z B M (2011) Risk management overview of tunnels using numerical modelling. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 9(01), 110–24.

Gibb, A, Hide, S, Haslam, R, Gyi, D, Pavitt, T, Atkinson, S and Duff, R (2005) Construction tools and equipment – their influence on accident causality. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 3(01), 12–23.

Gibb, A, Hide, S, Haslam, R, Gyi, D, Pavitt, T, Atkinson, S and Duff, R (2005) Construction tools and equipment ? their influence on accident causality. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 3(01), 12–23.

Gudem, M, Steinert, M, Welo, T and Leifer, L (2013) Redefining customer value in lean product development design projects. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 11(01), 71-89.

Haldenwang, R, Slatter, P and Pearce, C (2006) Integration of project management skills to manage a fourth year research project. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 4(01), 60–70.

Harinarain, N and Haupt, T C (2016) Mission: studio based learning in construction. The University of KwaZulu-Natal case study. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 14(01), 160-81.

Harran, M (2011) Dominant feedback practices: shaping engineer literacy perceptions. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 9(01), 85–109.

Harran, M and Theunissen, H W (2019) Navigating the engineering literacy divide: design report collaboration practice realities. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 17(01), 77–101.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Mechanical engineering; Higher education; Collaboration practices; Engineering discourse; Language proficiency; Report writing;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 1726-0531
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-07-2018-0112
  • Abstract:
    In 2004, the Council for Higher Education (CHE) required a curriculum responsiveness to the teaching and learning of literacies at the programme level, which needed to be addressed across all disciplines. This study aims to describe a situated higher education (HE) collaboration project between mechanical engineering and the Department of Applied Language Studies (DALS) at Nelson Mandela University from 2010 to 2014. The collaboration project aimed to develop the literacies levels of engineering students, reduce the first-year attrition rate and prepare engineering students to meet the high graduate attribute expectations of a competitive workplace amid employer concerns that engineering graduate communication competencies were lacking and insufficient. Design/methodology/approach The collaboration study used a mixed-method approach, which included student and lecturer questionnaires, as well as an interview with one engineering lecturer to determine his perceptions of the collaboration practices instituted. As the sample was purposeful, two mechanical engineer lecturers and 32 second-year mechanical engineering students from 2012 to 2013 were selected as the study’s participants, as they met the study’s specific needs. From the questionnaire responses and transcribed interview data, codes were identified to describe the themes that emerged, namely, rating the collaboration practices, attitudes to the course, report feedback provided and report template use. Findings Most of the student participants viewed the collaboration practices positively and identified their attitude as “positive” and “enthusiastic” to the language/engineering report collaboration initiative. The report feedback practices were viewed as improving writing skills and enabling the students to relate report writing practices to workplace needs. The engineering lecturers also found that the collaboration practices were enabling and improved literacy levels, although time was identified as a constraint. During the four-year collaboration period, the language practitioner increasingly gained report content knowledge, as well as unpacking the specific rhetorical structures required to produce the report text by co-constructing knowledge with the mechanical engineering lecturers. Research limitations/implications Studies have shown that language practitioners and discipline lecturers need to change their conceptualisation of academic discourses as generic transferable skills and autonomous bodies of knowledge. Little benefit is derived from this model, least of all for the students who grapple with disciplinary forms of writing and the highly technical language of engineering. Discipline experts often tend to conflate understandings of language, literacy and discourse, which lead to simplistic understandings of how students may be inducted into engineering discourses. Therefore, spaces to nurture and extend language practitioner and discipline-expert collaborations are needed to embed the teaching and learning of discipline-specific literacies within disciplines. Practical implications For the collaboration project, the language practitioner and mechanical engineering lecturers focused their collaboration on discussing and negotiating the rhetorical and content requirements of the Design 3 report as a genre. To achieve the goal of making tacit knowledge and discourse explicit, takes time and effort, so without the investment of time and buy-in, interaction would not be sustained, and the collaboration would have been unproductive. As a result, the collaboration project required regular meetings, class visits and negotiations, as well as a language of description so that the often tacit report discourse conventions and requirements could be mutually understood and pedagogically overt to produce “legitimate texts” (Luckett, 2012 p. 19). Social implications In practice, peer collaboration is often a messy, complex and lengthy process, which requires systematic and sustained spaces to provide discourse scaffolding so that the criteria for producing legitimate design reports are not opaque, but transparent and explicit pedagogically. The study also describes the organisational circumstances that generated the collaboration, as establishing and sustaining a collaborative culture over time requires planning, on-going dialogic spaces, as well as support and buy-in at various institutional levels to maintain the feasibility of the collaboration practice. Originality/value Literacy and discourse collaboration tends to reduce role differentiation amongst language teachers and specialists, which results in shared expertise for problem-solving that could provide multiple solutions to literacy and discourse learning issues. This finding is important, especially as most studies focus on collaboration practices in isolation, whilst fewer studies have focused on the process of collaboration between language practitioners and disciplinary specialists as has been described in this study.

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