English language competence is a significant aspect of an engineering student’s academic life and prospective career

English plays an important role in a student's academic life and propective career. When a student enrolls in the university, he or she may finds that English is everywhere, such as the posters, the lectures and formal activities. One needs good English abilities to get to know the ideas sent by the professors. Also the books and journals are written in English. Students may spend a lot of time searching for informations in the library. Good English abilities may help them to use less time and find more information with good qualities. Then the efficiency of study is increased. Moreover, English is even important when students work in a group to do a project. All the students use English to communicate and write down their ideas. Then, all people need to use English to show their results to the audience. They may do a good job in research, but whether they can entirely show their results and work to the audience is the key point. In this case, good English is the key to success.
Meanwhile, English is also important in one's propective career. When doing research in professional level, the abstract ideas needs very complicated words to describe. There may be many difficult words and phrases. Good English speakers can get through these things and make their way easier. How to describe the conplicated things to the public is also important. Experts do very professonal research all the time, but the aim is to show the result of the research to the public and make the society develop. The ability to convert the complicated ideas to simple meanings is the point.