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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span>While other offerings simply point to the reasons why engineers are not effective communicators, Changing the Conversation (CTC) poses the question directly to engineers, asking them: "Engineers - How are you changing the conversation?" ThisFor their part, in turn, elicits a response that CTC seeks to educate not only educates the viewer about possible solutions, but about the underlying problems. By educating both engineers and the public about engineers' common barriers to effective conversation, the solutions suggested can be found to be increasingly beneficial to overcome these prevalent issues. &nbsp;

The [http://www.engineeringmessages.org/ website] created for this purpose distinctly organizes suggestions for solutions and educational material in their "Tool Kit", described abovewhich provides language used to describe the field of engineerings and outlines for more specific situations.

Employing the specific messages listed above, students can associate their engineering education with a higher purpose towards their community and society, and learn how to effectively communicate these contributions to those outisde of the engineering profession. Understanding the common problems regarding the misconceptions of engineering is vital to having the know-how to combat these beliefs. Actively utilizing the brief messages promoted by the CTC Tool Kit while in the midst of engineering education will benefit students by preventing the eventual lack of effective communication experienced by so many of those in the engineering profession today. 

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