Posts By: Alan Chong

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – CLTA – Graduate Communication in Engineering

The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) and the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) invite applications for a three-year Contractually Limited Term Appointment (CLTA) in Graduate Communication in Engineering, specializing in the teaching of writing/speaking to graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) …

Managing communication in large-scale projects

Moving from Student to Engineer: Part 2

By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD

On top of their day jobs, engineers are often called on to work on the proposals to win business that keeps the company alive. Engineering students are probably familiar …

Call for Editorial Board Members – Technical Communication Youtube Channel

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking a five- to six-member editorial team to build and manage a YouTube channel for our field’s journal and book-series publications. Each team member would serve a term of up to two years. 

Participating TPC Publications

The publications participating in the YouTube project are …

How communication in industry differs from academia

Moving from Student to Engineer – Part 1

By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD

The differences between academic and industrial communication projects seem to be in scope and scale of content, size and number of teams, duration of collaboration, and geographic dispersion. 

Industry …

PROSPER 2021 | An Initiative of IEEE ProComm Young Professionals

Prosper 2021 is an Interactive Webcast by IEEE ProComm Young Professionals featuring Necia Werner, Immediate Past President of the IEEE Professional Communication (ProComm), scheduled for January 30, 2021, 7:30pm IST.

We have the following activities lined up to be a part of this webcast –

Insights …

Communication is negotiation

By Nancy Barr, PhD, and Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant.

A common question of engineering students nearing graduation involves negotiating. They want to know whether it’s okay to negotiate when they receive a job offer, how to negotiate without offending, i.e., losing out on the …

#InclusiveTPC: A Statement from Journal Editors in the Field

Dear Colleagues:

We editors of publications in technical and professional communication thank you sincerely for your active participation in the two listening sessions we held on anti-racism and inclusion practices in publication editing and academic publishing.

The two sessions were held October 15 and 26, 2020, and moderated by Dr. …