PET 225 - Presentation and Professionalism

1 credit (2 hrs Lab)

Emphasizes organization, purpose and visual communication as the key principles of presentations in petroleum engineering. Participants learn to inform and convey data and technical information successfully by focusing on the needs of the audience. They learn software skills to support these principles and methods using PowerPoint. Students will have the opportunity to speak in front of the class every week, which will help them gain practice and comfort presenting to an audience while building their skills. Students will have reading, viewing and written homework assignments and will give several formal presentations. Topics relating to professionalism are also taught in this course. The first five to ten minutes of each class session will consist of a presentation by the course instructor or guest speaker on different professionalism topics in the petroleum industry.

Prerequisite(s): PET 201 and WRIT 121 (or WRIT 101).