工科英语(2024-2025）

王歆

目录

  • Week1 Orientation
    • ● Introduction
  • U1 R&D
    • ● Week1 L1 Sources of funding
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week2 L2 Measuring & comparing R&D activity
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week3 L3 Time planning
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week4 L4 Project management
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week5 L5 Idea generating&testing
      • ● self assessment
  • Unit2 Design&Testing
    • ● Week6 L1 Design criteria&trends
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week7 L2 Trilemma&compromise
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week8 L3 Value engineering
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week9 L4 Product testing
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Team projectII
  • Unit3 Safety, Maintenance, and Quality Control
    • ● Week10 L1 Accident&Report
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week11 L2 Safety& Prevention
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week12 L3 Quality Control Method 1
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week13 L4 Quality Control Method 2
      • ● self assessment
  • Week14 Team Project Presentation
  • Week15&16 Spoken test
    • ● Topic options
Week2 L2 Measuring & comparing R&D activity

Learning Objectives

  • master the vocabulary and expressions concerning with R&D measurement

  • learn to measure and compare R&D activities/projects

  • aware of R&D investment is highly risky

    Vocabulary

Text A - Sound clip

In this text, you will learn the four major indicators to measure R&D activities.

Text B&C

In text B, you'll learn about more infomation about R&D intensity and some of the R&D intensive industries and companies. And text C talks about the risks of R&D investment.

Teaching slide


Self-assessment


Supplement exercises

  1. R&D investment of different countries

    (须在电脑端打开)

  2. The clip tells some of the top R&D spenders in 2013. Try to catch those companies top in the list.


2. The news report tells what 7 facotrs taken to see the innovative performance of those nations.