The Importance of Communication Skills for engineers

 “I contend that we (engineers) are undervalued because of our widespread inability to explain what we do to the general public (and why it is so important). It is one of the hardest goals to accomplish, to be able to boil down difficult concepts into a short and easily understood presentation or elevator pitch.” Marybeth Miceli, President, Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, USA (2011)


The work that an engineer goes through are usually very complicated, it requires years of experience on a specific field to truly understand it. Which makes it very challenging for us to explain the difficult concept in engineering through words that can be easily understood by the public. Therefore, this causes the public not able to completely understand the importance and work done by an engineer, which led to them neglecting the hard work done by engineers. 

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