Globalization in Engineering Education: Advances in Teaching Presentation Skills

With the advent of globalization, high quality presentation skills have become increasingly demanded in many fields: industry, business education, social and cultural life. Mastering them is a prerequisite of most activities in all walks of life. This article focuses on the topic of delivering discourses by students, explaining the teaching effort, its purpose, and enumerating possible speech structures. Special attention is paid to the speaker's role and to the steps that must be taken for achieving an effective, elegant and enjoyable talk. Sharing experience and best teaching practice is necessary, so that future engineers might be able to present information with confidence, whether individually or as part of a team.