Michigan Engineering Alumni regularly cite communication as the most important skill and competency in their career success. Donate today to help our current students further build their communication skills in an increasingly digital and competitive job market.
The Technical Communication Program prepares engineering students to communicate, lead, and innovate in an increasingly global and digital environment, ensuring that all Michigan Engineers have the communication skills necessary to succeed in their professional lives. We teach students across the College of Engineering, from first-year to graduate students. More than 5000 engineering students take our courses each year.
Help Us Improve and Celebrate Student Learning
Our courses help students develop foundational communication skills to succeed in their engineering coursework, internships, and their careers beyond Michigan. Our first-year courses play an important role in this skill development. Donations will be used to fund the following initiatives:
- Creating a series of technical communication awards for the "most improved" communicator award to celebrate student learning in our first year courses.
- Developing funds to support our faculty to incorporate GenAI tools to enhance student learning.
A Growth Mindset Benefits Students
Our "Most Improved Awards" will celebrate the students who show the most improvement over the course of the semester. This emphasizes learning and growth, which helps students cultivate a "growth mindset." Research shows that a growth mindset is critical to professional and personal success--from launching a startup to handling difficult setbacks.
GenAI Presents a Challenge as Students Prepare for a Rapidly Changing World
Rapid advances in GenAI present both a challenge and an opportunity for our students. To best prepare our students to use these tools in their future engineering communication, our faculty need support to incorporate these tools into their courses.