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The technical communication practices of Russian and U.S. aerospace engineers and scientistsAs part of Phase 4 of the NASA/DoD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project, two studies were conducted that investigated the technical communication practices of Russian and U.S. aerospace engineers and scientists. Both studies had the same five objectives: first, to solicit the opinions of aerospace engineers and scientists regarding the importance of technical communication to their professions; second, to determine the use and production of technical communication by aerospace engineers and scientists; third, to seek their views about the appropriate content of the undergraduate course in technical communication; fourth, to determine aerospace engineers' and scientists' use of libraries, technical information centers, and on-line databases; and fifth, to determine the use and importance of computer and information technology to them. A self administered questionnaire was distributed to Russian aerospace engineers and scientists at the Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and to their U.S. counterparts at the NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Langley Research Center. The completion rates for the Russian and U.S. surveys were 64 and 61 percent, respectively. Responses of the Russian and U.S. participants to selected questions are presented in this paper.
Document ID
19930067603
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Pinelli, Thomas E.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Barclay, Rebecca O.
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Troy, NY, United States)
Keene, Michael L.
(Tennessee Univ. Knoxville, United States)
Flammia, Madelyn
(Central Florida Univ. Orlando, FL, United States)
Kennedy, John M.
(Indiana Univ. Bloomington, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Volume: 36
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0361-1434
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Accession Number
93A51600
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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