1. Communication in the Workplace Marcie Morrison Rolls-Royce Corporation Mechanical Design Engineer 30 November 2001

2. Education and Career History
Today
Moved to T56 Engine IPT
2001
Hired on Full-Time in RR Design: AE Engine IPT
Got Married
2000
Spent 1 Semester at GWU/JIAFS
Interned in Thermal and Flow at Rolls- Royce (RR)
1999
Graduated from Rose (Mechanical Engineering)
1998
SLT
1997
Los Alamos
1996
Futurekids

3. Rolls-Royce Company Profile
WHAT: Provide, Design, Manufacture and Support Power Systems for Land, Sea, and Air
WHERE: 48 Countries
WHO: 7000 Engineers out of 40,000 employees
HOW MANY: Operating base of >55,000 Engines
2400 corporate and utility operators
>100 armed forces

4. Mechanical Design Engineers at RR Indy
Job Description (
Plans, performs, directs design activities for gas turbine engines.
Performs engineering analysis and documentation.
Provides technical support and represents the engineering activities both within and outside the company.
Facilitates teamwork between many disciplines i.e., manufacturing, quality, engineering, etc.
Communicates technical and business results via reports and presentations.

5. Examples of Communication Forms
Item # in One Year
Engineering Drawings 15 direct 50 other
Reports
Presentations
Meetings
Meaningful
Phone Conversations 500
E-Reference accesses
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Communicate is what I do most

6. Getting Inundated: Becoming Useful
Learn The Company
Learn The Language
What To Do
How to Get It Done
Read Company Procedures and Policy
Determine functional modes of communication
You’re new -- take advantage of It
Why It Is the Way It Is: Company Values
Responding to a Changing Market: The Plight of Reorganization
Don’t get too comfortable

7. Visual Example: Engineering Drawings
T-56 Fuel Nozzle
AE3007 Turbine Blade

8. Written Example: External Memorandum
Date Everything
Specific Subject
Summary

9. Presentation Example: Product Change Board
Change Process
Fix Problems
Reduce Cost
Any change that spends money

10. Eliminate Potential HP2 Vane -to- HP1 Blade Contact PCB 1 for Opportunity Report #1673
Description
Engine TD18 showed rotor-stator contact between the first stage HP turbine blade and second stage HP turbine vane forward platform.
Product Improvement Opportunity
Cut back inner face of 2nd Vane forward platform to avoid future rub.
Estimated Requirement: Change letter change, Use Stock, AEM only
Supporting Information
Aerospace Techniques contacted and opportunity approved
Secondary Flow contacted, results approved by Design
Sponsorship
Technical Sponsor: T. Moore, Program Sponsor: B. Stratton
Task Owner: M. Morrison
M. Morrison, 1 May 2001 H:\M_Morrison\Open Projects\Miscellaneous\

11. Book Plug Engineering Drawings General Writing Practice and Style
ANSI Y14.5
General Writing Practice and Style
MLA
Chicago Manual of Style
Presentations and Displays
Edward R. Tufte:
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Visual and Statistical Thinking

12. How to Play Well With Others: Overcoming Challenges in Communication
Communicate with purpose
Meetings s
Get as close as you can
Seek powerful allies
Check your personal bias in a technical discussion
Get along, even if you disagree
Know that you know that you know