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  <name>The Business Climate for Engineering Communication</name>
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  <md:created>2008/03/07 09:33:34.879 US/Central</md:created>
  <md:revised>2008/04/23 09:21:11.474 GMT-5</md:revised>
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      <md:author id="wavelets">
      <md:firstname>Cain</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Project</md:surname>
      <md:email>cainproject@mailman.rice.edu</md:email>
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    <md:maintainer id="wavelets">
      <md:firstname>Cain</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Project</md:surname>
      <md:email>cainproject@mailman.rice.edu</md:email>
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  <md:keywordlist>
    <md:keyword>Engineering Communication</md:keyword>
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    <para id="id8464543">This PowerPoint file of 14 slides introduces several distinctive features of today’s work climate. Slides identify challenges to <emphasis>productivity</emphasis> in a complex work environment, and provide strategies for working under time and material constraints, managing diversity, and delegating and communicating efficiently and effectively. In an intense work environment, engineering teams must learn to maximize resources to <emphasis>create value faster</emphasis>. This presentation explains how changing technologies for collaboration and communication require new approaches to the way teams work together, adapt to audiences, and ultimately add value to their collaborations.</para>
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	  <caption>Click the Play button to start the movie.</caption>
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	    <name>Download Version: The Business Climate for Engineering Communication</name>
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	    <caption>Please right click on the above link to download the PPT file
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