• Question: Describe the most significant written technical report or presentation that you had to complete.

    Asked by chris to Lee, Liz, Tadhg, Yasmin, Hilly on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 763enec47, nush_xo, davina_xo.
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      David Hill answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Thats a great question! I’ll stick to technical reports, because i’ve had a bit of experience on that having worked in two industries!

      A technical report can mean totally different things to different people and understanding what the ‘reader’ wants is the key to writing technical reports.

      Whilst in aerospace I wrote a technical report that was 666 pages long! It was the most detailed thing I’d ever written… and it was required by aviation authorities to prove the aircraft could fly! (It was both a military and civil aircraft… so it had a LOT of rules to abide by!)

      The document was about the connection between metallic and composite structures, which received very interesting loads!

      I’d love to tell you more… but i’m not allowed… its a secret… sorry!

      On the other hand… I’ve wrote technical reports that are two pages long, its all about getting the message across… and depending on who the reader is, changes the style of the message!

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      Yasmin Ali answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I like doing presentations! I had to do some very detailed technical presentations at university. In my 3rd year, I was doing a research project with one of my friends about a type of coal from an area in China called Xuan Wei, people there used the coal inside their homes for cooking, and a high number of people in the area had lung cancer.

      We were researching if the lung cancer was caused by the type of coal they use, and looking at what is different in the coal that could cause lung cancer. At the end of the year, me and my friend had to present all of our findings to our teachers.

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      Lee Margetts answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hi @Chris and @763enec47. The most significant technical report I’ve written is a 600 page university text book for engineering students. It took 2 years to write!

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      Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      That would have to by my PhD thesis – it took 3 and a half years to do the research and 6 months to write – I’ll never forget the experience

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