Communication patterns of engineers /
Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King.
- 1st
- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2004.
- x, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (187-252) and index.
Communication Models -- A Communication Framework for Engineers -- The Engineering Profession and Communication -- Engineers' Information Seeking and Use -- Factors Affecting Information Seeking and Use -- Information Output by Engineers -- Engineering Education and Communication Skills -- The Engineering Scholarly Journal Channel -- Engineers' Journal Information-Seeking and Reading Patterns in an Emerging Electronic Era -- Engineering Communication Patterns Compared with Science and Medicine -- The NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project.
This volume brings together, summarizes, and analyzes the research on how engineers communicate. It presents benchmark data and identifies gaps in the existing research.