Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

Cunningham, Don; Stewart, Jill

Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

dc.contributor.author	Cunningham, Don	en
dc.contributor.author	Stewart, Jill	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-09-18T09:49:38Z	en
dc.date.available	2017-09-18T09:49:38Z	en
dc.date.issued	2012-03-28	en
dc.date.updated	2017-09-18T09:49:38Z	en
dc.description.abstract	This descriptive cross-sectional research study examines perceptions of time spent by architects and professional engineers on reading, writing, and evaluating various information products, as well as their perspectives of specific quality characteristics and the relative significance in meeting work goals. Professional engineers and architects were surveyed at seminars held at eight locations in seven states. Descriptive statistics were then used to investigate perceptions and relationships. Findings indicate architects and professional engineers spend the most amount of time reading correspondence and the least amount of time reading management reports. Respondents considered correspondence to be the most important reading activity. Participants also spend the most amount of time writing correspondence, closely followed by nearly equal time spent writing and editing technical reports and proposals. Finally, participants rated organization, comprehensiveness, and accuracy as the most important aspects while indicating mechanical issues such as grammar and spelling as the least important aspects of technical documents.	en
dc.description.version	Published version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.citation	Don Cunningham and Jill Stewart, “Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects,” ISRN Education, vol. 2012, Article ID 617137, 10 pages, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/617137	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.5402/2012/617137	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79008	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Hindawi	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright © 2012 Don Cunningham and Jill Stewart. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.title	Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects	en
dc.title.serial	ISRN Education	en
dc.type	Article - Refereed	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en