The teaching of report writing skills has been incorporated into a compulsory course on engineering computation given to second year engineering students. The course is unusual in the heavy use of computers for teaching, communication, learning and assessment, and in that the course is presented by a team comprised of an engineer and an educator. The evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course has indicated the level of student satisfaction and has provided a basis for required changes in the following year. These questionnaire responses show that engineering students understand the importance of report writing, but it is not until the final year of their degree that they fully appreciate the report writing skills we are trying to develop.
