Writing Civil Engineering Lab Reports

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Different types of lab reports are written for various situations. One such situation is an engineer must know the properties of three samples, so he sends the samples to the company's lab. A day later, he receives a slip of paper with his project's number on it and the results of the lab test. Since he already knows what procedures were used to test the samples, he does not require a formal report.

In school, instructors inform you of the data your lab reports should include. In industry, the amount of detail included in a lab report depends on who your readers are and how they will use the data. Most companies have strict requirements about the types of lab reports produced. To learn more, choose any of the items below:

• Internal Lab Reports
• External Lab Reports
• Perspective: Internal and External Lab Reports