The communication demands expected of today’s engineers and information technology professionals immersed in multicultural global enterprises are unsurpassed.

New Media Communication Skills for Engineers and IT Professionals: Trans-National and Trans-Cultural Demands provides new and experienced practitioners, academics, employers, researchers, and students with international examples of best practices in new, as well as traditional, communication skills in increasingly trans-cultural, digitalized, hypertext environments. This book will be a valuable addition to the existing literature and resources in communication skills in both organizational and higher educational settings, giving readers comprehensive insights into the proficient use of a broad range of communication critical for effective professional participation in the globalized and digitized communication environments that characterize current engineering and IT workplaces.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Communication Competence
Communication Frameworks
Conceptual Mapping
Engineering Education Technologies
Linguistic and Cultural Skills
Systems Thinking
Technical Presentation Anxiety
Trans-Cultural Knowledge Exchange
Transnational Knowledge Exchange
Visualization Skills

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The book intends to incorporate the views of a wide range of stakeholders: practitioners, professionals, academics, and students. The intention is to give readers comprehensive insights into the proficient use of a broad range of communication skills and tools critical for effective professional participation in the globalised and digitised communication environments that characterise current engineering and IT workplaces.

– Dr. Arun Patil, CQUniversity, Australia

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Editor/Author Biographies

Arun Patil has over 20 years of teaching, research, and managerial experience in higher and further education. He holds a PhD, the Master of Engineering Science, both from Monash University, Australia and a Master’s in Physics in the specialization of applied electronics from India. Dr. Patil has published widely, and his publications include edited books, book chapters, conference proceedings, refereed journals, and conference papers. He is a Founder Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD). His recently published book, “Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective,” is highly accepted and cited scholarly publication in engineering education community around the globe. In 2004, Dr. Patil has received a prestigious Silver Badge of Honour form the Monash University (the UNESCO International Centre) for his significant contribution to global engineering education. Dr. Patil has coordinated and organized several international conferences in various parts of world. He is an active member of several professional organizations including, Engineers Australia (EA), World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), The Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN), The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE).

Henk Eijkman is a tertiary education learning solutions consultant specializing in outcomes-based, socially inclusive learning as well as social media oriented flexible learning. He is currently a visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra Campus, Australia, Editor-in-Chief of “The Learning Organization” and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education (IJQAETE). While innovation and organizational culture change in the service of socially inclusive adult learning is a central theme of his work he has a special interest in engineering education. His aspiration to make positive contributions to student-centered learning in tertiary education has taken him to South Africa, Malaysia, Palestine, and India. He publishes widely in international journals, and serves on a number of conference committees. His research agenda, grounded in a social theory of learning, currently focuses on the role of social media; the politics of knowledge in organizational and individual learning; the trans-nationalization of learning; and tertiary education in disrupted and post-conflict societies.

Ena Bhattacharyya holds the current position as a Senior Language and Communication Lecturer with the Management and Humanities Department at University Technology of PETRONAS, Tronoh, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak Darul Ridzuan Malaysia. At the university, she lectures Professional Communications Skills and is also the course coordinator for Critical Thinking Skills designed for the undergraduate degree program. Occasionally, she is required to impart her knowledge on critical and creative thinking component in the Research Methodology course delivered to postgraduate students. Prior to her experience in the university, she taught English language to various levels in different secondary schools in West and East Malaysia. She also held the position as the Head of the English Language Department in Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She served other schools like Sri Istana Secondary School in Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia and Santubong Government Secondary School in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia. She was involved as an examiner for various English Language oral and written public examinations. Ena is passionate in studies on rhetoric discourse analysis, oral communication skills, public speaking, research methodology, and competency skill requirement in higher education. She has presented papers at both local and international conferences and in journals.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Giuliano Augusti, European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education, Belgium
Peter Gray, US Naval Academy, USA
Claudiu Kifor, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Ahmad Murad Merican, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
Stefanie Shamila Pillai, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Marlia Puteh, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Subarna Sivapalan, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia