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English for Mechanical Engineering EAP (2nd edition)
English for Mechanical Engineering EAP is designed for students who attend university courses in Mechanical Engineering and wish to improve their linguistic and academic skills in English. The course material aims at enabling students to:
- become familiar with the complexity and contextual multiplicity of academic genres/texts
- develop and enhance reading comprehension skills
- acquire and improve critical thinking
- build up and improve discipline-related vocabulary
- improve study skills (i.e. reading for meaning, identifying and producing textual information)
- apply and expand writing skills in academic contexts
UNIT 1 What is Engineering?
Topics
Engineering, Engineering disciplines, Mechanical Engineering
Vocabulary
Collocations and synonyms
Words with multiple meanings
Common adjective suffixes
Zero-derivation nominalisation
Genre
Register
Academic Oral Presentations - Informative Presentations
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Sentence-to-sentence cohesion
Topic and Concluding sentences
Writing skills
Discourse markers
Paragraph Structure
Listening skills
Understanding main information/points
Oral skills
Making presentations
UNIT 2 Basic concepts in Engineering: Materials
Topics
Engineering materials, material properties, strength of materials, machining processes
Vocabulary
Scientific vocabulary
Synonyms
Nominalisation
Genre
Scientific News articles - Schematic Structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding definitions
Interpreting information in texts
Sentence-to-sentence cohesion
Understanding graphs
Writing skills
Incorporating information
Sentence-to-sentence cohesion: describing materials
Cohesion between sentences: comparing and contrasting
Listening skills
Understanding lectures
UNIT 3 Manufacturing processes & machine tools
Topics
Manufacturing processes, machine tools: classification and use, cutting angles
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Nominalisation
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Labelling
Understanding definitions
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Classifying information
Paragraph Structure
Expanding Advantages
Writing information for Presentations
UNIT 4 Conventional machine tools: Lathe
Topics
Lathe: components and applications
Vocabulary
Synonyms and derivatives
Definitions & functions
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding component definitions
Understanding component descriptions & functions
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Incorporating information in texts
Cohesion within one sentence: reference bonds
Listening skills
Understanding instructions
Grammar
Relative clauses
UNIT 5 Conventional machine tools: Milling machine
Topics
Milling machine: components and applications
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Definitions & functions
Genre
Descriptions - Schematic Structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding information in Tables
Understanding definitions
Understanding component functions
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Writing descriptions
Labelling paragraphs
Listening skills
Understanding instructions
UNIT 6 CNC machines
Topics
CNC machines: components and operation
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Adjective & adverb suffixes
Genre
Descriptions - Schematic Structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding noun phrases
Cohesion between sentences: Indicating Similarity and/or Difference
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Paraphrasing: compound phrases
Cohesion between sentences: Indicating Similarity and/or Difference
Cohesion between paragraphs: concluding sentences
Labelling paragraphs
Listening skills
Understanding processes
Grammar
Gerunds and Infinitives
UNIT 7 Internal Combustion Engines
Topics
Engines, Internal Combustion engines: components and operation
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Verb suffixes
Genre
Summary
Descriptions - Schematic Structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Labelling
Understanding functions
Understanding definitions
Paragraph-to paragraph cohesion: discourse markers
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Writing summaries
Note-taking
Paragraph-to-paragraph cohesion: summarising differences
Listening skills
Understanding information in descriptions and functions
UNIT 8 Electric Vehicles
Topics
Electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, gas emissions, charging stations, charging types, electrified aviation
Vocabulary
Synonyms
EV components
Research papers: useful phrases
Genre
Reporting and explaining disadvantages
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Compound phrases
Understanding information in charts
Understanding definitions
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Topic sentences
Summary
Paraphrasing
Listening skills
Understanding information
UNIT 9 Electricity Generation
Topics
Electricity: sources and processes, decarbonisation
Vocabulary
Synonyms and derivatives
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding information in charts
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Topic sentences
Paraphrasing: noun phrases
Labelling paragraphs
Listening skills
Understanding information
Grammar
Passive Voice
UNIT 10 Renewable Energy Sources
Topics
Renewable energy, world energy outlook, trends
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Zero-derivation nominalisation
Collocations
Genre
Reporting trends - Schematic Structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Interpreting information in texts
Understanding trends
Writing skills
Summarising
Paraphrasing: noun phrases
Reporting trends
Listening skills
Understanding information
Oral skills
Making a presentation
Grammar
Participles
UNIT 11 Turbines
Topics
Turbines: classification, components and function
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Descriptions
Genre
Process description
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding functions
Understanding definitions
Interpreting information in texts
Focusing on meaning: Topic Sentences
Writing skills
Sentence-to-sentence cohesion: creating coherence
Paraphrasing: noun phrases
Cohesion in paragraphs: incorporating information
Paraphrasing with particles
Labelling
Describing processes
Listening skills
Understanding processes
UNIT 12 Heating – Ventilation – Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Topics
Heat pump systems
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning: components and operation, refrigerant emissions
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Nominalisation
Transition phrases
Genre
Process descriptions - Schematic Structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Ordering information
Discussing factors and explanations
Interpreting information in texts
Sentence-to-sentence cohesion: process description
Writing skills
Combinining information
Writing process descriptions
Paraphrasing compound phrases
UNIT 13 Computer-Integrated-Manufacturing
Topics
Smart Manufacturing, future outlook
Computer-Integrated-Manufacturing: applications, subsystems and advantages
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Abbreviations
Formal lexical items
Genre
Referencing - types
Scientific News Article - Schematic Structure & Vocabulary
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding noun phrases
Understanding advantages
Identifying main points in text
Cohesion: logical links across sentences
Writing skills
Sentence-to-sentence cohesion: creating coherence
Summarising
Discussing advantages
Listing information
Paraphrasing sentences
Using formality
Listening skills
Understanding stages in a process
UNIT 14 Production Planning & Control
Topics
Production planning, Production control: definition, objectives & strategies, Inventory management
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Research papers :useful phrases
Genre
Referencing - formatting
Research paper- Schematic Structure & Vocabulary
Reading skills
Understanding Abstract information
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding definitions
Cohesion within and between paragraphs
Understanding research structure
Writing skills
Cohesion in paragraphs: expanding notes into paragraphs
Paraphrasing sentences and paragraphs
Listening skills
Understanding information
UNIT 15 Total Quality Management
Topics
Total quality management, quality assurance, auditing, ISO, Lean Six Sigma
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Definitions & functions
Genre
Research paper- Types & Schematic structure
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding definitions & descriptions
Cohesion within and between paragraphs
Writing skills
Labelling information
Cohesion: explaining facts/actions and benefits
Labelling paragraphs
Summary
Completing information in tables
Paraphrasing
Listening skills
Understanding information
UNIT 16 Supply Chain Management
Topics
Supply chains, supply chain management: definition, objectives & departments,
sustainability in supply chains
Vocabulary
Collocations & synonyms
Nominalisation
Genre
Research paper
Useful phrases
Abstract
Reading skills
Skimming & scanning texts
Inferencing
Understanding definitions & descriptions
Labelling
Interpreting information in texts
Cohesion within and between paragraphs
Understanding referencing
Writing skills
Labelling information
Writing references
Listening skills
Understanding information
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Αλτίνη Αγάπη
Agapi Altini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Design in the TEI of Western Macedonia from 2008-2019, and as a Lecturer and non-tenure track Lecturer in the Centre for Foreign Languages & Physical Education, in the TEI of W. Macedonia from 1984-2008. She graduated the Department of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and she is an MA holder in Linguistics (TESOL), University of Surrey, UK.
Her teaching experience to date includes teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes (ESP / EAP), mainly in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and also in the Departments of Product & Systems Design, and Chemical Engineering. She also taught English for Academic and Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP) at the TEI of W. Macedonia (Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Pollution Control Technologies, Accounting and Finance and Business Administration), as well as in the Department of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Extended Education Programmes) and Greek to Erasmus students. In addition, she worked in English Language Schools, teaching General English, and was an English Language Oral Examiner for the National Foreign Language Exam System (KPG).
In parallel with her teaching experience and since 2020, she has been working on the translation of the main website and individual departments of the University of Western Macedonia. In addition, she was a Scientific Associate in the Careers Office, TEI of W. Macedonia (2003-2007), organising conferences and meetings, developing, and editing prospectuses, Career & Academic Guides and electronic material (’e-news’, monthly web newsletter).
Her professional interests include Linguistics, Teaching Methodology of English of academic and scientific texts (EAP/ESP), discourse analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics, translation of academic texts, new technologies in education, as well as multilingualism cultural diversity. She has attended seminars on Linguistics, teaching English to non-native speakers, teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes to non-native speakers, Computer Assisted Language learning (CALL), teaching Greek language as a second language, methodology of teaching English, ESP material design and development, and Content-Led Integrated Language Learning (CLILL). She has designed and developed teaching material for Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering (division of Pollution Control Technologies) and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). She has also designed and developed material for Greek language teaching to foreign students (Erasmus).
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Η Αγάπη Αλτίνη είναι Επίκουρη καθηγήτρια στο τμήμα Μηχανολόγων Μηχανικών του Παν/μιου Δυτ. Μακεδονίας. Υπήρξε επίσης, από το 2008-2019, Επίκουρη καθηγήτρια στο τμήμα Μηχανολόγων Μηχανικών & Βιομηχανικού Σχεδιασμού (Τ.Ε.) του ΤΕΙ Δυτικής Μακεδονίας, και από το 1984-2008, Καθηγήτρια Εφαρμογών και ωρομίσθια Καθηγήτρια Εφαρμογών στο Γενικό Τμήμα της Σχολής Διοίκησης & Οικονομίας και στο Κέντρο Ξ. Γλωσσών & Φυσικής Αγωγής του ΤΕΙ Δυτ. Μακεδονίας. Είναι απόφοιτος του τμήματος Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας ΑΠΘ, με Mεταπτυχιακό Δίπλωμα Ειδίκευσης στη Γλωσσολογία (ΜΑ in Linguistics (TESOL), University οf Surrey, UK).
Η διδακτική της εμπειρία μέχρι σήμερα περιλαμβάνει τη διδασκαλία Τεχνικής Ορολογίας στην Αγγλική (ESP/EAP), κυρίως στο τμήμα Μηχανολόγων Μηχανικών, και επίσης στα τμήματα Σχεδίασης Προϊόντων & Συστημάτων, και Χημικών Μηχ/κων.
Έχει επίσης παλαιότερα διδάξει Αγγλική Τεχνική Ορολογία στα τμήματα Βιομηχανικού Σχεδιασμού, Τεχνολογιών Αντιρρύπανσης, Λογιστικής & Χρηματοοικονομικής και Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων και στο τμήμα Βιομηχανικής Πληροφορικής (ΠΣΕ), καθώς και Ελληνικά σε φοιτητές Erasmus. Επιπλέον, έχει εργαστεί σε Φροντιστήρια Ξένων Γλωσσών διδάσκοντας Γενικά Αγγλικά σε όλα τα επίπεδα, και υπήρξε αξιολογήτρια προφορικού λόγου για το Κρατικό Πιστοποιητικό Γλωσσομάθειας (ΚΠΓ).
Παράλληλα με τη διδακτική της εμπειρία, από το 2020 ασχολείται με τη μετάφραση της κεντρικής ιστοσελίδας του Παν/μίου Δυτ. Μακεδονίας καθώς και των επιμέρους τμημάτων, ενώ, επίσης, συνεργάστηκε, ως επιστημονικός συνεργάτης, με το τμήμα Διασύνδεσης του ΤΕΙ Δυτ. Μακεδονίας, με κύρια ευθύνη την επιμέλεια και μετάφραση του ενημερωτικού υλικού και της ιστοσελίδας του τμήματος, την επιμέλεια και σύνταξη Επαγγελματικών & Ακαδημαϊκών Οδηγών για τα τμήματα Βιομ. Σχεδιασμού, Χρηματοοικονομικών Εφαρμογών και Γεωτεχνολογίας Περιβάλλοντος, την οργάνωση συνεδρίων και ημερίδων, καθώς και την επιμέλεια και παραγωγή μηνιαίας ηλεκτρονικής εφημερίδας (‘e-news’).
Στα επαγγελματικά της ενδιαφέροντα περιλαμβάνεται η Γλωσσολογία, η Μεθοδολογία και Διδακτική αγγλικών ακαδημαϊκών και επιστημονικών κειμένων, η ανάλυση λόγου και Συστηµική Λειτουργική Γλωσσολογία, η μετάφραση ακαδημαϊκών κειμένων, οι νέες τεχνολογίες στην εκπαίδευση, αλλά και η πολυγλωσσία και πολυπολιτισμικότητα, και ιδιαίτερα οι αλληλεπιδράσεις στη γλωσσική και πολιτισμική πολυμορφία. Έχει παρακολουθήσει σεμινάρια Γλωσσολογίας, διδασκαλίας της αγγλικής τεχνικής ορολογίας (ESP), διδασκαλίας της αγγλικής γλώσσας με τη χρήση υπολογιστών (CALL), διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής γλώσσας ως δεύτερης γλώσσας, μεθοδολογίας της διδασκαλίας της αγγλικής γλώσσας με Συνδυασμένη Εκμάθηση Επιστημονικού Αντικειμένου & Ξένης Γλώσσας (CLILL), σχεδιασμού και παραγωγής διδακτικού υλικού για τη διδασκαλία της αγγλικής τεχνικής ορολογίας, συμβουλευτικής και παιδαγωγικής.
Έχει γράψει διδακτικές σημειώσεις αγγλικής τεχνικής ορολογίας για σπουδαστές ΤΕΙ (Mηχανολόγους Μηχανικούς, Μηχανικούς Βιομηχανικού Σχεδιασμού, Μηχανικούς Περιβάλλοντος, Ηλεκτρολόγους Μηχανικούς, Μηχανικούς Βιομηχανικής Πληροφορικής), καθώς και σημειώσεις διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής γλώσσας σε ξένους φοιτητές (Erasmus).
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