TY - CHAP A1 - Koenig, Eric A1 - Guertler, Katherine A1 - Żarnowska, Dorota A1 - Horbačauskienė, Jolita T1 - Developing English language competence for global engineers T2 - 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON): 27-30 April 2020, Porto, Portugal N2 - English language skills are essential to professional communication in international engineering environments. Given the concomitant degree of specialization, university-level coursework in English for Specific Purposes is an essential component of engineering student preparation. This large-scale survey of university students of engineering in three European countries provides important insight into the most relevant language skills, with the goal of informing communicative, task-based curricula for Technical English courses. KW - English as a foreign language KW - English for engineers KW - English for specific purposes KW - professional communication KW - technical English Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON45650.2020.9125208 SP - 242 EP - 249 ER -