An introductory resource to accompany the five key skills workshops. The workshops are- working in groups, technical report writing, oral presentations, sourcing materials and writing a literature review, preparing for placement, all provided by Loughborough University for Engineering undergraduates.

2. Technical Report Writing - 90 minutes

3. Oral Presentations – 90 - 120 minutes

4. Sourcing Material and Writing a Literature Review – 90 - 120 minutes

5. Preparing for Placement – 120 - 150 minutesThis resource contains all the support material that is needed to deliver each workshop. Included is a PowerPoint presentation, which gives concise bullet points as prompts for lecturers to expand on in their delivery of the material, a detailed student handout, and material for the tasks or suggestions for the tasks. The tasks are provided as stand-alone documents or embedded in the PowerPoint presentations or at the end of the handouts.<br />The timing for the workshops is based on using the materials supplied with groups of up to 25 students. For larger groups the time will need to be adjusted accordingly.<br />Working in Groups<br />The room should be suitable for students to be seated in groups of up to five people.<br />Technical Report Writing<br />Room layout is not important.<br />Oral Presentations<br />The room should be suitable for students to be seated in groups of up to five people.<br />Sourcing Material and Writing a Literature Review<br />The room should have sufficient computers for all the students to have an opportunity to use databases to source material. There is some overlap of material in the handout with that contained in the Technical Report Writing handout.<br />Preparing for Placement<br />The room should be suitable for students to be seated in groups of up to five people.<br />Credits<br />This resource was created by Glynis Perkin, Loughborough University and released as an open educational resource through the Open Engineering Resources project of the HE Academy Engineering Subject Centre. The Open Engineering Resources project was funded by HEFCE and part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme.<br />© Loughborough University 2009<br />This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. <br />The name of Loughborough University and the logo are the name and registered marks of Loughborough University. To the fullest extent permitted by law Loughborough University reserves all its rights in its name and marks which may not be used except with its written permission.<br />The JISC logo is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence. All reproductions must comply with the terms of that licence.<br />The HEA logo is owned by the Higher Education Academy Limited may be freely distributed and copied for educational purposes only, provided that appropriate acknowledgement is given to the Higher Education Academy as the copyright holder and original publisher.<br />