The Importance of English Language to Engineering Students

English is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As , a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century, it has become the communication language between people not sharing a mother tongue in many parts of the world. Therefore, it is used in various activities in life, from trade to media and even research and development. That is the reason why I think that English language competence is a significant aspect of an engineering student’s academic life and prospective career.
English language competence is important to engineering students as they need to cooperate with engineering students of different nationalities in certain projects especially during their final year. The importance of English language becomes more significant when students further their studies up to Phd level where they need to work under a professor who most probably of different nationality from the students. Engineers often have to present their work to their clients and those clients might not share the same mother tongue as the engineers. If the engineers do not have a certain level of efficiency in English language, they might not able to present their ideas to their clients properly and might cause their companies to lose the clients.
Engineers will also involve in research and development where scientists and engineers from all around the world will work together. Since they are of different nationalities, English language is a important tool to communicate. In short, the main purpose of mastering English language is to overcome the language barrier of different nationalities where people have different language as their first language.

By: Sara Liew Kar Mun