Announcements

SIGDOC ’17 Registration is Now Open

We are happy to announce that registration for SIGDOC ’17 — the ACM SIGDOC 2017 annual conference — is now open!  To register for the conference go to​ ​
https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1981518
SIGDOC ’17 will be held at Dalhousie University and the Atlantica Hotel in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia on August …

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Data-Driven Approaches to Research and Teaching in Professional and Technical Communication (December 2018):

Guest editors: Ryan K. Boettger (University of North Texas) and Suguru Ishizaki (Carnegie Mellon University)
The approaches, theories, and technologies that inform professional communication remain a consequential and ever evolving area of study.
In 2006, Thomas Orr guest edited a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional …

1Q17 Issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

The March 2017 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication has recently been published online. If you are a paper subscriber, you will receive the issue, printed together with the June issue, in early June.
Volume 60, Number 1, March 2017
Editorial— A Diamond Milestone for …

In Memoriam: Thomas Orr

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Thomas Orr. Tom served as ProComm President from 2010-12 and guided ProComm through an IEEE Technical Activities Board Financial Committee review during that period. The review allowed …

Technical Communication Special Issue: “Emerging forms of Project Management in Technical and Professional Communication”

Special Issue Editors
Benjamin Lauren Michigan State University blauren@msu.edu
Joanna Schreiber
Georgia Southern University jschreiber@georgiasouthern.edu
Overview
Recently, scholarship in technical and professional communication (TPC) has examined economic and structural transformations that have influenced how projects are being managed at different workplaces. For instance, the near ubiquitous use of information communication …

Job: Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology invites applications for a two-year visiting assistant professor of English starting in August 2017.
The position requires teaching professional and technical communication courses, as well as developing elective courses in the candidate’s areas of interest suitable for undergraduate non-majors.  Preferred areas of …

CFP: CEEA 2017 in Toronto

The Canadian Engineering Education Association’s Annual Conference – CEEA2017 will be hosted by the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario from June 4 to 7, 2017, and there’s still time to get your paper in!