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The purpose of this study was to determine impact of industrial internship training on oral communication skills of engineering students during this program. Fifty engineers from two engineering organizations participated in this study. Participants of this study had industrial internship training from different organizations. Purposive sampling method was used for data collection purpose. The results of the study revealed that industrial internship trainings contribute to develop oral communication skills of engineering students such as oral presentation skill, meeting skill, discussion skill, conversation skill, and project participation skill during this internship program. However, the results of this study are consistent with other literature review findings on industrial internship trainings for engineering students.

Industry has broadened the job scope for engineers. Engineers have to perform multiple projects in terms of technical and non-technical. Technical skills require integration of communication skills in modern industry. This research attempted to discover communication skills significance for novice engineers. Also, it explored communication skill training needed for novice engineers. A purposive sampling research design was employed to draw the results. Twenty (20) final year engineering students participated in this qualitative study. The study research instrument was focus group interviews.Findings described that communication skills play a significant role for engineers in the work environment of modern industry. Moreover, inadequate communication skills training are provided to engineering students during study time. Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) should emphasize upon engineering universities of Pakistan to train engineering students in hard and soft skills.

Communication plays paramount role for engineers at workplace in this modern age of globalization and industrialization. The purpose of this study was to determine importance of oral communication and oral presentation for engineers at workplace and barriers that hindered effective oral presentation performance of engineering students for workplace environment. Thirty engineers and seven engineering students participated in this study. Purposive sampling method was used for data collection purpose. Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the study indicated that oral communication and oral presentation plays important role for engineers at workplace and barriers for instance lack of confidence, lack of knowledge, lack of environment and lack of English language hindered effective oral presentation performance of engineering students. However, the results of this study are consistent with literature review findings on importance of oral communication and oral presentation for engineers at workplace and barriers that hamper effective oral presentation performance of engineering students.Engineer of 2020, 2005: 166), because good engineering require good communication (National Academy of Engineering, 2004) skills of engineering graduates such as oral communication and presentation skills. Research reveals that administrators and academicians recognize communication skills as significant skills for graduates (Gray, 2010) in order to be fit in this competitive work environment of organizations and thereby excel in job promotion ladder. In addition, industry recognizes importance of communication for engineering graduates (Korte et al., 2008). No doubt engineering graduates equipped with effective oral communication and presentation skills increase workplace productivity of organizations and employers look for graduates equipped with effective oral communication and presentation skills to hire them for workplace jobs. Thus, during the process of selection and recruitment they focus oral communication and oral presentation skills of engineering graduates. In certain instances they demand from engineering graduates to perform 5 minutes oral presentations. Sutton (2002) noted that effective communication play the role of differentiator to hire graduates for workplace jobs.Oral presentation skills have been recognized significant skills (Aly & Islam, 2005) for engineering graduates at workplace. This is because engineers have to perform oral presentations to keep abreast upper management of organization well informed about work progress and problems that confront organizations and decrease workplace productivity. Oral presentation skills are considered one of the best career enhancers (Polack-Wahl, 2000). Modern engineering graduates have to work in national and international organizations all over the world; therefore they have to communicate with people from public and private organizations and many other multiple stakeholders. Thus, these increased communications demand effective oral c...