Helps students to combine their knowledge of English with their technical knowledge. Develops all four skills through varied activities. Five units out of thirty are based on interviews with students and practising engineers and place more emphasis on listening skills. Up-to-date technical content. Authentic reading and listening passages covering a wide range of topics, e.g. materials, mechanisms, forces, safety at work, engineering design, automated systems, robotics,hydraulics, process control, and CAD. Comprehensive glossary of technical terms which forms a useful mini-dictionary of Engineering.

This book is intended for students of both Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in universities, colleges, and technical schools, as well as for technicians and engineers. It can be used for self-study in conjunction with the Answer Book. The thirty units contains authentic texts of different types and from a wide variety of sources. The listening passages include interviews with technical students and practising engineers. The topics have been carefully chosen to cover areas that are common to the technical syllabuses of both Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering courses.