Educating Engineers For The 21st Century: The Industry View (Chapter 4-5) English-Chinese Translation Practice Report

The source text of this report “Educating Engineers for the 21 st Century: The Industry View” is written by Henry School of Management on behalf of the Royal Academy of Engineering and it was published in 2006.The report focuses on the needs of engineering as an industry in the future.By investigating the requirements of different types of companies for engineering graduates,the author shows the challenges faced by the engineering industry and engineering graduates in the future.As the source text belongs to information text,it aims to convey accurate information to the target readers.With the guidance of Skopos theory,communicative translation and semantic translation,this report takes the translation of vocabulary,prepositional phrase and textual cohesion as the main focus.In translation of vocabulary,amplification,abstraction,conversion are used;In translation of prepositional phrase,division amplification,literal translation are uesd;In translation of textual cohesion,amplification is used.We hope that this report can provide some reference for the translation of engineering education research report.