本书符合《大学英语课程教学要求》对大学英语教学提出的新要求，使大学生在今后学习、工作和社会交往中能用英语有效地进行交际，将专业知识融入真实的职场情景中，注重训练全面的听、说、读，写技能，培养大学生的职场英语交际能力，有别于仅注重阅读和专业词汇的传统专业英语教材。本书选材均为理工职场中核心的话题，包括：研究与开发、设计与测试、建设与生产、质量监控与操作、维护与管理等，并配有录音光盘和教师用书。

To the Student

Unit 1 Research and Development

 Lesson 1 Congress and the National Science Foundation

 Lesson 2 Measuring and comparing R&D activity

 Lesson 3 Coordinating the members of the team

 Lesson 4 Working out a logical sequence

 Lesson 5 Gradually increasing expenditure

 Lesson 6 Developing a new product

 Team Project 1

Unit e Design end Tasting

 Lesson 1 Establishing industrial design as a profession

 Lesson 2 No single, unified style of industrial design

 Lesson 3 Compromises and engineering designs

 Lesson 4 Value engineering

 Lesson 5 Testing your products

 Lesson 6 Choosing to performance-test products

 Team Project 2

Unit 3 Manufacturing and Industry

 Lesson 1 Expert knowledge in a variety of fields

 Lesson 2 Working for an electric utility company

 Lesson 3 Coordinating their computer systems

 Lesson 4 Describing chemical engineering tasks

 Lesson 5 Combining semiconductors with phosphors

 Lesson 6 Mechanical engineers also design tools

 Team Project 3

Unit 4 Safety, Maintenance, and Quality Control

 Lesson 1 What caused the explosion

 Lesson 2 The prevention of accidents

 Lesson 3 Wearing special clothes

 Lesson 4 The amplitude of motion

 Lesson 5 Quality and a finished item

 Lessen 6 A "total quality control" approach

 Team Project 4

Unit 5 Careers and Employment

 Lesson 1 Computerization and its role

 Lesson 2 Physicists and biotechnology firms

 Lesson 3 Still a male-dominated profession

 Lesson 4 Many engineers are licensed PEs

 Lesson 5 Median annual earnings

 Lesson 6 Seeing an increase in opportunities

 Team Project 5

Unit Reviews

Additional Activities

Reading Resources

Writing Resources

Unit Tests

Grammer Resource

Glossary