tailieunhanh - ENGLISH FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING

These study materials are designed for undergraduate students of electrical engineering and computing to complement the coursebook that is studied in class. We try to supply students with additional texts and exercises believing that a larger language, especially lexical, input can be nothing but useful for their further education. | ENGLISH FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING Authors Daniela Matic Mirjana Kovac Nina Sirkovic FESB Split 2009. ii CONTENTS Preface iv PART ONE 1 Engineering 1 Vocabulary practice - What is electricity 6 Did you know. 6 - William Gilbert 6 - . de Coulomb 7 - Joseph Henry 7 - Michael Faraday 8 Grammar review - Tenses 9 Crossword puzzle - Engineering 11 PART TWO 12 Electrical conductor 12 Electric insulation 12 Semiconductor 13 Did you know. 15 - . Swan 15 - George Westinghouse 16 Inventions 17 - Incandescent lamp 17 - Vacuum tube 19 Numbers 21 Did you know. 24 - Carl F. Gauss 24 Grammar review 25 - Passive 25 - Relative clauses 25 - Prepositions 27 Language skills 27 - Presentations 27 - Presentation tips 27 - Building a pyramid 29 - Example of a presentation 31 - Questionnaire 1 Students criteria for evaluation 34 PART THREE 35 Inventions 35 - Abacus 35 - Computers 36 Acronyms 41 Abbreviations 42 Did you know . 42 - Charles Babbage 42 - Ada Lovelace 43 Fiber optics 43 Did you know . 46 - Samuel Morse 46 Grammar review 47 - Modal auxiliaries 48 - Adjective comparison 49 iii - Relative clauses 50 - Passive 53 Language skills 55 - Structure of a technical paper 55 - Writing abstracts 57 - Questionnaire 2 Criteria for evaluating abstracts 59 Crossword puzzle - Units of measurement 60 PART FOUR 61 Energy 61 Induction 63 Inventions 64 - Engine 64 - Sonar 65 - Servomechanism 66 Grammar review 67 - Discourse markers 67 - Verbs 68 - Gerund 71 - Time clauses 72 - Linking words reason and result 73 Language skills 74 - Writing a cv 74 - How to write a job application 78 Crossword puzzle - Instruments 82 References .