Prompt & Context Engineering: 4-Hour Overview
AI-102 · 4 HOURS
What do you type in the chat box? Learn to write clear prompts and give AI the right context.
Why take it
When AI answers come back generic or off target, a clearer prompt and the right context are often the fix. That can let AI take on more routine drafting, leaving you more time for work that needs your experience.
Crawl, Walk, Run. Expect to crawl a lot, and to loop back as you learn.
What you'll have the opportunity to build
- A prompt you use, rebuilt and clearer
- A side-by-side test: with and without context
- A reusable template, tried on three cases
You decide what happens to every AI result: accept it, verify it against the source, reject it if unsupported, or escalate it to an expert.
Want more? The two-day course goes deeper and adds AI in your everyday work.
Let AI platforms check each other
Use a second or third AI platform to critique, compare or argue the other side. The sources and your judgment still decide.
4-hour overview or two-day course?
Prompt & Context Engineering comes in two lengths.
| 4-Hour Overview | Two-Day Course | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | 4 hours, one morning | 2 full days |
| Depth | Key ideas and short guided practice | Full method, practice on your own work, five working tools you keep |
| Choose it for | A first look, or deciding whether the full course fits | Building the skill for daily work |
Since mid-2024, NWETC has changed its ways of working by incorporating AI tools. We earned that expertise the hard way, through constant practice, success and failure, and every class gives you hands-on time applying AI tools in your professional role.
Course details
Anyone who already uses AI at work, in the office or the field, and wants more reliable results.
Comfortable with basic AI use. AI Foundations helpful, not required.
- Writing clear prompts: State task, audience, format and checks.
- The right context: Add key sources and limits; leave out what you shouldn’t share.
- Make it repeatable: Save what works as a template you can reuse.
- Fix and share: Diagnose weak results, fix the prompt, know when not to use AI.
Attendees will receive a course guide: an outline of the class, resources for further practice, and what the two-day course covers.
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