Title

The Technical Communication Practices Of Russian And U.S. Aerospace Engineers And Scientists

Abstract

As part of Phase 4 of the NASA/DoD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project, two studies were conducted that investigated the technical communication practices of Russian and U.S. aerospace engineers and scientists. Both studies had the same five objectives: first, to solicit the opinions of aerospace engineers and scientists regarding the importance of technical communication to their professions; second, to determine the use and production of technical communication by aerospace engineers and scientists; third, to seek their views about the appropriate content of the undergraduate course in technical communication; fourth, to determine aerospace engineers’ and scientists’ use of libraries, technical information centers, and on-line databases; and fifth, to determine the use and importance of computer and information technology to them. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to Russian aerospace engineers and scientists at the Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and to their U.S. counterparts at the NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Langley Research Center. The completion rates for the Russian and U.S. surveys were 64 and 61%, respectively. Responses of the Russian and U.S. participants to selected questions are presented in this paper. © 1993 IEEE

Publication Date

1-1-1993

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volume

36

Issue

2

Number of Pages

95-104

Document Type

Article

Identifier

scopus

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/47.222688

Socpus ID

0027609923 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0027609923

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