《研究生英语阅读与写作（新工科）》的整体目标是针对新时代新形势下，对新工科研究生英语阅读写作教材的迫切需求，以学习过程为主，强调语言技能和专业知识的同时内化吸收，在教材内容、编写思路和使用效果方面，满足新工科重点专业研究生的英语学习需求，提高我国高校研究生英语学习效果。
教材内容上，根据国家“新工科”的专业学科设置，设计相应的章节主题。教材拟订编写十二章，涵盖如下主题：第一章 物联网工程，第二章 机器人工程，第三章 智能科学与技术，第四章 数据科学与大数据技术，第五章 知识科学与工程，第六章 新能源科学与工程，第七章 船舶与海洋工程专业，第八章 光电信息科学与工程，第九章 电气工程与自动化，第十章 飞行器制造工程，第十一章 机械设计制造及其自动化，第十二章 核技术。

曹硕，大连理工大学外国语学院副教授，博士在读，研究生公共英语教研室主任，美国富布赖特FLTA访问学者。主要讲授硕士和博士的阅读与写作和口语交流等课程，出版多部研究生英语教材。研究兴趣包括二语习得、认知语言学和神经语言学，2019国家社科基金一般项目资助获得者，数篇论文发表在SSCI和CSSCI期刊。

  Unit One Internet of Things Engineering  
Unit Two Robot Engineering
Unit Three Intelligence Science and Technology  
Unit Four Data Science and Big Data
Unit Five Knowledge Science and Technology  
Unit Six New Energy Science and Engineering
Unit Seven Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Unit Eight Optoelectronics Information Science and Engineering  
Unit Nine Electrical Engineering and Automation
Unit Ten Aircraft Manufacture Engineering
Unit Eleven Mechanical Engineering and Automation
Unit Twelve Nuclear Technology
Key to the Exercises                                    

   Unit One Internet of Things Engineering
Part One Reading
Lead-in
   Look at the following picture. What do you know about the Internet of Things (IoT)? Can you name some of the areas where the IoT has been put into practical use with examples?

Reading A
Start-up Question
   Do you have any idea about how the Internet of Things will change the world and our life? What might be the benefits it will bring? Will there be any potential risks?

                          Chips with Everything
                 — How the Internet of Things Will Change the World
   ON AUGUST 29TH, as Hurricane Dorian tracked towards America's east coast, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car maker, announced that some of his customers in the storm's path would find that their cars had suddenly developed the ability to drive farther on a single battery charge. Like many modern vehicles, Mr Musk's products are best thought of as internet-connected computers on wheels. The cheaper models in Tesla's line-up have parts of their batteries disabled by the car's software in order to limit their range. At the tap of a keyboard in Palo Alto, the firm was able to remove those restrictions and give drivers temporary access to the full power of their batteries.
   Mr Musk's computerized cars are just one example of a much broader trend. As computers and connectivity become cheaper, it makes sense to bake them into more and more things that are not, in themselves, computers—from nappies and coffee machines to cows and factory robots—creating an “internet of things”, or IoT. It is a slow revolution that has been gathering pace for years, as computers have found their way into cars, telephones and televisions. But the transformation is about to go into overdrive. One forecast is that by 2035 the world will have a trillion connected computers, built into everything from food packaging to bridges and clothes.
   Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and  
products that can do things non-computerized versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighborhoodwatch” scheme and pass any interesting video along to the police.
   Businesses will get efficiency, as information about the physical world that used to be ephemeral and uncertain becomes concrete and analyzable. Smart lighting in buildings saves energy. Computerized machinery can predict its own breakdowns and schedule preventive maintenance. Connected cows can have their eating habits and vital signs tracked in real time, which means they produce more milk and require less medicine when they fall ill. Such gains are individually small but, compounded again and again across an economy, they are the raw material of growth—potentially a great deal of it.