Final Self Assessment andReflection Discussion
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OverviewNow that you have completed your work for the With Social and Global Implications aspect of yourEngineering Economics course, you will be asked to reflect on your intercultural, team, andinterpersonal communication experiences, understandings, and expectations.Each question is listed on its own page. Enter your answers in the spaces provided for you under eachquestion. Some questions are multi-part with all parts included as part of the same table.This is a reflection assignment, and there are no right or wrong answers. However, there are completeand incomplete answers, thoughtful and shallow answers, and answers given in good- or bad-faith1.Your responses will be assessed in terms of thoughtfulness, completeness, and whether they were givenin good faith.
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Final Self-Assessment & Reflection
Overview
Now that you have completed your work for the With Social and Global Implications aspect of your
Engineering Economics course, you will be asked to reflect on your intercultural, team, and
interpersonal communication experiences, understandings, and expectations.
Each question is listed on its own page. Enter your answers in the spaces provided for you under each
question. Some questions are multi-part with all parts included as part of the same table.
This is a reflection assignment, and there are no right or wrong answers. However, there are complete
and incomplete answers, thoughtful and shallow answers, and answers given in good- or bad-faith1.
Your responses will be assessed in terms of thoughtfulness, completeness, and whether they were given
in good faith.
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For our purposes here, good faith can be understood to mean that you answered with sincerity, honesty,
integrity, care, and fairness.
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Question 1: Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal communication is much more than simply talking to other people. Describe your
understanding of interpersonal communication in your responses below. Be sure to include specific
IPC practices, theories, and principles that you read about, wrote about, discussed, and experienced
throughout the semester.
A. In the box below, describe your understanding of what “interpersonal communication” is (75150 words).
[include your response here]
B. Based on your perspective and experience, why is interpersonal communication important?
(~50-150 words)
[include your response here]
C. Based on your perspective and experience, and considering your thoughts from B above, what
role do you think interpersonal communication will play in your professional life? Why?
[include your response here]
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Question 2: Cultural Awareness and Intercultural Communication
~1-2 paragraphs
Strong professional relationships and cohesive, well-functioning teams require the individuals
develop an ability and willingness to learn, consider, and even think from others
perspectives. The ability to do this well requires several elements, including that you are
familiar with and able to critically consider your own cultural rules and biases. How has your
cultural awareness and intercultural competence improved, deepened, widened, or
otherwise changed over the course of the semester? In your response, address the following:
How do you think your cultures rules and biases, especially pertaining to communication,
might affect communication between professionals and within teams?
o Are there any examples you can draw on from your teams interactions this semester,
such as differences in direct/indirect communication, differences in verbal/nonverbal
communication, differences in perceptions (including co-cultures), etc.?
How you perceived others in your group as team members at the start of the semester, and
how your perceptions changed throughout the semester.
o You should offer a general overview, but you might choose to focus on a specific
example, especially if you feel that your perception changed significantly.
o What factors led to the change?
[include your response here]
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Question 3: Audience Centered Communication
This semester you were asked to develop communication artifacts (e.g. emails and a PowerPoint
presentation) aimed toward a specific audience. Please answer the questions below:
A. What is audience centered communication? Your response must be specific. (~75 words)
[include your response here]
B. Based on your understanding of audience centered communication, describe the benefits of
using audience centered communication in professional settings. (~75-150 words)
[include your response here]
C. What steps must you take to ensure that your communications (including emails, presentations,
proposals, reports, public addresses, etc.) are audience centered? Be specific and include
examples. (~100-150 words)
[include your response here]
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Question 4: Engineering Economics and Communication
The title of this course is Engineering Economics with Social and Global Implications. As
part of this course, you were asked to learn about the technical aspects of Engineering
economics while also considering the social and global impacts of economic decision making.
To help you think through broad economic impacts, you were asked to examine the role that
communication plays as part of engineering project development as well as part of
client/engineer relationships.
Given what you know about interpersonal, intercultural, and audience-centered communication, how
might interpersonal and intercultural factors impact discussions about and the presentation of
economic factors related to engineering projects? In other words, how might interpersonal and
intercultural factors affect the ways we communicate about and understand costs, benefits, value,
and worth? Type your answer in the box below. (~1 paragraph)
[include your response here]
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Question 5: Professional Communicator
~1 paragraph
In your professional life, you will be required to communicate with a variety of people in a
variety of contexts, using a variety of platforms and channels. For some, the sweeping
importance of communication is obvious; for example, most medical school students
recognize communication as a core part of their professional identities and a critically
important part of their field. But for others, the importance of communication may be less
obvious; for example, most science, engineering, and computer science students do not
realize that they will spend over 60% of their professional life communicating, and do not yet
realize the critical importance of competent communication in their fields.
How do you conceptualize communication as part of your (future) professional identity? In
your response, address the following:
What is your target professional career?
What role do you think communication plays in that career?
How do you personally identify as a communicator?
How would you describe your identity as a communicator?
How do you identify as a communicator in relation to the profession/career you
aspire to (that which you are studying for)?
[include your response here]
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Question 6: Greatest Take-away
~1 paragraph
What was your greatest/most impactful take-away from the with Social and Global
Implications portion of the course? Moving forward, what will you do with this take-away?
In other words, how will you use what you learned from this insight?
[include your response here]
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