Preface

Preface

Technical Reports are written according to general standards and corporate design standards of the current university or company or customer, logical rules and practical experiences. These rules are not known well enough among writing engineers and technicians. Therefore, this book intends to help you create Technical Reports. It contains many practical examples.

Both authors of the previous editions, Prof. Dr. Lutz Hering und Dr. Heike Hering, have long experience in educating engineers at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover and Aachen. They have held many lectures where students had to write reports and took notes about all positive and negative examples that occurred in design reports, lab work reports, and in theses. Dr. Hering now runs her own institute for language training, private teaching and educational therapy.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Geert Heyne joined the team as co-author for the 2nd German edition. He redesigned chapter 5 “Presenting the Technical Report”. He contributes his experiences from Motorenwerke Mannheim AG and his lectures at University of Applied Sciences RheinMain Wiesbaden Rüsselsheim as well as from rhetoric and visualization seminars in Rüsselsheim and Mannheim.

This book answers questions of pupils, engineering students, doctoral candidates and engineers, information scientists, or natural scientists in practice occurring when writing Technical Reports or preparing presentations on the PC. These questions refer to contents as well as formal aspects. Such questions occur during the whole work on the report or pre¬sentation from the beginning to the end. Therefore this book is designed as a guideline or manual „How to write Technical Reports“. It is ordered by timeline along the process of writing Technical Reports into the three phases planning, creation, and finishing.

In this 3rd edition all texts were revised and updated, the sections with references were updated, the glossary and index were expanded and the SN Flashcards were added. Moreover the “Checklists and Glossary” of the 3rd edition were recombined as compact supplementary material and the information on “Learning and Creating Questions with SN Flashcards or Brainyoo“ was newly created. Both documents will be available for download on my homepage technischeberichte.de as Supplementary Material.

Springer Vieweg gave us much support for creating this 3rd edition, i. e. primarily our new lector Mr. Eric Blaschke. Many thanks for that!

Hannover, November 2023, Heike Hering