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Published on September 19, 2024 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication SEPTEMBER 2024       VOLUME 67      NUMBER 3       IEPCBU      (ISSN 0361-1434) INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEWS The Evolutionary Convergence of Technical Communication and Translation: An Integrative Literature Review of Scholarship from 2000 to 2022, G. Palumbo and A. H. Duin This study sought to ...

Published on September 4, 2024 September 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (UTC -4) Please join the Philadelphia chapter of the IEEE Professional Communication Society for an virtual event. Everyone is welcome to attend. Traffic control is an essential part of a safe, efficient transportation system. One of ...

Published on May 21, 2024 In April 2024, an outreach session was held for the ProComm at IEEE Student Xavier College of Engineering at Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu. The event was named the “Professional Communication Society Awareness & IEEE Student Branch Valedictory Function.” This is one of ...

Published on April 10, 2024 Senior Member is the highest grade of IEEE membership for which a member can apply.  Only 10% of the 400,000 members of IEEE are Senior Members.  We would love to see more of our colleagues in the Professional Communication Society applying ...

Published on February 28, 2021 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 ...

Published on February 13, 2021 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 ...

Published on January 26, 2021 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., ...

Published on December 13, 2020 For many, the fundamentals of everyday work experienced a seismic shift in 2020-2021. This short series will cover updated information about best practices for engineering, scientific, and business online presentations given the major shifts towards ongoing remote work circumstances. From online ...

Published on May 22, 2018 Ethics has long been acknowledged as central to engineering education; yet current approaches to teaching engineering ethics fail to understand the the psychological and philosophical literature about how ethics are learned. The three dominant modes may be identified as: The ethical theories ...

Published on June 19, 2017   In a previous post, I wrote about your job application as an argument, and showed how we could use a rhetorical framework established by Stephen Toulmin to help your cover letters do a more effective job of connecting your evidence to ...

Published on February 7, 2017 The first quarter is traditionally a strong hiring season for companies, and also a time when people turn to thoughts of new jobs and career paths. Professional communication skills are key to taking advantage of those opportunities, particularly in engineering and the ...

Published on September 22, 2016 Ron Blicq performs one of the roles in a difficult conversation. Ron Blicq has been integral to the development of technical writing as a field, and to the IEEE Professional Communication Society. It’s no wonder that our award for Distinction in Technical Communication ...

Published on July 24, 2015 In this podcast, we discuss the role that communication skills play in determining success for engineers with Anthony Fasano, author of the IEEE-Wiley series book, Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career, and strategies for improving communication skills ...