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Annette Berndt
Affiliations
- Centre for Professional Skills Development
- Faculty of Applied Science (Engineering)
Job Title
Senior Instructor
Contact Information
ayberndt@apsc.ubc.ca
What would you like to do?
- Teach APSC 201 (Technical Communication):
- Engineering students learn about context and documentation, audience and purpose by writing instruction sets, mechanism descriptions, formal reports, letters and memoranda.
- Teach APSC 263 (Technology and Development, subtitled "The Global Engineer")
- Elective for engineering students with a few seats for arts students. In collaboration with the Maiwa Foundation, students work on sociotechnical problems identified by rural artisans in India (without travelling to India) and learn how social context influences the design and implementation of proposed solutions.
- Interested in developing joint assignments and/or collaborating on mixed Community Service-Learning projects with colleagues involved in
- Sauder's D-Studio
- Journalism
- Education (visual literacy issues in teaching and learning)
- Cultural Studies
- Anthropology/Sociology
- Chemistry (water purification, rapid/natural dyes)
- Engineering (Chemical, Materials, Mechanical)
- Etc.
Link(s) to syllabuses or other relevant materials
http://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/2011/06/ubc-collaboration-new-challenges-for.html