Technical English: Mechanical Engineering (#EnglishME)

course duration: Self-study course
Instructor: Dorle Stecher, TH Lübeck
Language: English
Duration: 7 weeks

What is this course about?

The aim of the course is to learn and consolidate the basic technical vocabulary in the field of mechanical engineering and - application-oriented - grammatical structures. Furthermore, the receptive linguistic skills of listening and reading comprehension are trained. Participants should be enabled to follow first lectures in English in the field of mechanical engineering and to understand English-language technical literature. Strategies will be presented and practiced.

What do you learn in this course?

After completing the course “Technical English. Mechanical Engineering”

  • you will be able to recognize, understand and apply the most common technical vocabulary in your field of study.
  • you will be able to recognize and apply appropriate context-specific structures
  • you will be able to apply strategies that help you understand and follow lectures and other longer contributions in your field of study
  • you will be able to apply strategies that help you understand articles in your field of study
  • you will be able to identify and produce the language and features of the subject-specific text types process description, product description and graph description.
  • you will be able apply strategies that help you learn vocabulary independently, cope with a self-paced learning mode and continuously motivate yourself in the learning process

How is the course structured?

The individual chapters of the course will be published on the following dates

  • Welcome and Introduction (March 11, 2019)
  • Maths: algebra and geometry (March 18, 2019)
  • Energy and electricity (March 25, 2019)
  • Materials and their properties (April 1, 2019)
  • Forces (April 8, 2019)
  • Friction (April 15, 2019)
  • Transmission (April 22, 2019)

This course will stay open for participation and enrollment after the tutored time!

Requirements

English Level B1 (CEFR)

Workload

40 h

Certificates

In this course, you can earn Badges and Training certificate.

Organizer

Technische Hochschule Lübeck

Cooperation partners

Kiron

Supported by

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF  

Licence

Unless there is no licence specified, the content is licenced under

Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)



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