Duration of the online course: 20 hours and 10 minutes
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Engineers who can communicate clearly in English move faster: requirements are understood, reports read smoothly, and presentations sound confident and credible. This free online course helps you build practical Technical English skills for real academic and workplace situations, focusing on the language choices that make technical messages precise, impersonal where appropriate, and easy to follow.
You will strengthen the core communication skills used in engineering contexts, from reading efficiently and extracting main ideas to listening for key information in meetings, lectures, and briefings. Along the way, you will refine grammar that frequently causes confusion in technical documents, including parts of speech, noun phrases, countable and uncountable nouns, sentence structure, agreement, and article use. These foundations matter because small errors can change meaning, reduce clarity, or make writing sound informal.
The course also supports clearer technical style: choosing verbs and tenses to report findings accurately, using comparatives to describe performance or specifications, and applying modals and passive voice in ways that match scientific and engineering conventions. You will learn to write more objectively, emphasize results over people when needed, and frame statements with the appropriate level of certainty or caution.
Beyond writing, you will build confidence in spoken communication. You will practice delivering effective technical talks, using visual aids with purpose, and following formal presentation habits expected in professional and academic settings. You will also sharpen punctuation for polished reports, emails, and research-style writing, making your message easier to scan and less open to misinterpretation.
Designed for engineers and engineering students, the lessons and exercises help you apply each concept immediately. By the end, you should be able to read technical material more strategically, write with better precision and consistency, and present your ideas in a way that supports credibility and teamwork in international environments.
Video class: Introduction to the Course
18m
Exercise: In Technical English for Engineers, LSRW refers to which set of core skills?
Video class: Parts of Speech: Nouns
25m
Exercise: Which word class helps avoid repeating a noun in consecutive sentences in technical writing?
Video class: Parts of Speech: Preposition and Noun Phrases
30m
Exercise: Choose the grammatically correct sentence for formal technical writing.
Video class: Countable and Uncountable Nouns
31m
Exercise: Identify the uncountable noun commonly used in technical contexts
Video class: Reading (Identifying Main Ideas) and Listening
36m
Exercise: Which suffix pair commonly converts a verb into a noun in technical vocabulary building?
Video class: What is a Sentence
30m
Exercise: Identify the direct object in this SVOO sentence: The team sent the committee a report.
Video class: What is a Sentence (Continued)
32m
Exercise: Classify the sentence used in technical writing: Which is a complex sentence?
Video class: Subject-Verb Agreement
26m
Exercise: Choose the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement for technical writing.
Video class: Articles
24m
Exercise: Choose the sentence with correct article usage in a technical context
Video class: Verbs
33m
Exercise: Choose the sentence where be functions as the main verb (not an auxiliary).
Video class: Comparatives
13m
Exercise: Choose the correct comparative form for a technical description
Video class: Modals and Voices
30m
Exercise: Which sentence best follows scientific writing conventions for engineers by using a modal with the passive voice?
Video class: Passive Voice (Continued)
31m
Exercise: Choose the sentence that best fits impersonal passive style in technical English
Video class: Tenses
33m
Exercise: Choose the correct past simple passive form for establishing an engineering organization.
Video class: Tenses (Continued)
22m
Exercise: Choose the best sentence to report a recent technical finding without specifying time.
Video class: Effective Speaking
22m
Exercise: Effective use of visual aids in technical presentations
Video class: Formal Presentation
32m
Exercise: Which option best reflects effective practice for a formal technical presentation in academia
Video class: Punctuation
36m
Exercise: Choose the correctly punctuated sentence for an indirect question in technical writing.
Video class: Punctuation (Continued)
32m
Exercise: In technical writing, which punctuation should enclose words added to a quoted text to clarify meaning?
Video class: Reading – SQW3R Method and Note-taking
36m
Exercise: What is the main purpose of skimming in technical reading?
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Course comments: Technical English for Engineers
Anisur Rahman
good luck sir