HMU Organizes Communication Workshop

29 December 2013

The Humanities and Management Unit (HMU), School of Engineering, organized a workshop on Technical Communication. Eighteen teachers from different Departments of School of Engineering and School of Science participated in the Workshop. The Workshop was first in the series of HMU’s faculty support programmes in the main campus.

Addressing a brief opening programme, Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa, the Registrar, emphasized the need of interdepartmental collaborations in ensuring quality service across different programmes of the University. Mr. Hem Raj Kafle, Coordinator of the HMU, stated that the workshop was directed to helping the faculties to upgrade their competence in scientific communications as well as to exploring standard guidelines for the development, management and communication of student projects in the University.

The opening session was attended by Associate Deans, Coordinators and Heads of different Departments in the Main Campus.

The Workshop included two sessions. The first session, entitled “Performing Technical Communication: Discovery, Disposition, Decorum” by Hem Raj Kafle, involved discussion and practice on the tenets of effective technical communication in relation to exposure, competence, confidence and power of selection in writers/communicators. The main goal of the session was to instill awareness about technical communication as a conscious, responsible and humane activity where the communicators mainly performed a task as well as made that task worthwhile for equally responsible and conscious humans. Ms. Ekku Pun, Associate Professor of English at School of Arts, Hattiban, facilitated the session.

In the second session Mr. Eak Prasad Duwadi highlighted the strategies of disposition. He also involved the participants in the practice of writing scientific abstracts. Mr. Prabal Sapkota facilitated this session.

In the closing, Mr. Arun Sharma conducted a brief feedback session. Mr. Sharma concluded the programme with a brief presentation on the value of communication and professional merits in teaching. He also summed up the day’s main emphases.

The workshop was held in the CV Raman Auditorium. Mr. Bibhu Ratna Tuladhar hosted the entire programme.