Effective Communication

Dear Professor Blackstone, My name is Christine Ratnam. I’m a student from class T6 and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2020 with a diploma in digital and precision engineering, where I learned a wide range of basic engineering skills. Wishing to advance my studies further, I decided Mechanical Engineering was the next reasonable step. My interest in engineering stems from wanting to make the world a better place for people. This interest started when I learned about the myoelectric prosthetic hand, which learns to read signals from muscle contractions to move certain ways. I believe that by innovating and creating new commodities, we can help people, especially those with special needs, get through life more easily. When it comes to communication as a whole, I feel one of my strengths is my ability to write. In past classes, I was always able to do reasonably well when it came to writing assignments and I feel I ...

 “Employers identify communication as one of the basic competencies every graduate should have, asserting that the ability to communicate is valuable for obtaining employment and maintaining successful job performance.” - Sherwyn Morreale   I think this quote means that employers value communication as a skill necessary for both getting and keeping a job.