The Diamond engineering building at The University of Sheffield

The future of report writing

At the start of the course, we heard from Professor Mike Hounslow who described how he wrote his first technical reports in biro on a pad of paper. Although technology has changed over the years, Mike explained that the conventions he used have remained constant throughout his career.

In the final discussion of the course, we'd like to hear what you're going to take away from this course.

Thinking back over the advice that you have heard about writing technical engineering reports, which bits do you think will remain the same, and what do you think will change in the future as technology and society develop?