• Level 4
  • 15 Credits
  • 0.125 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $899 NZ Domestic
  • Workload - Approximately 10 hours per week
  • Availability
    Monthly course availability for upcoming periods
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    Dec
    2027 Not available
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This online course will develop your technical research skills along with oral, written, graphical and interpersonal communication skills.

This course will cover the following:

  • Technical and business communication to standards and codes including referencing systems, physical and web based resources
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Computer application tools, e.g. word-processing, spreadsheeting, presentation graphics
  • Pictorial sketching and basic engineering drawing techniques, orthographic projection, dimensioning principles, principles of drawing office practice and drawing management.

On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Utilise information obtained from physical or web based resources in technical problem solving and presentations
  • Prepare and deliver an oral presentation on a technical subject
  • Communicate ideas and technical findings in a written format
  • Create and use pictorial sketches and pictorial/orthographic drawings to current drawing standards as a communication technique to present ideas and data
  • Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills to develop project outcomes.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed 

Lab requirements

There are no Lab requirements for this course

 

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.