Announcements

An IEEE PCS member in El Salvador is looking for someone to give a seminar on professional communication in Spanish in July. Please see the details in this document (in Spanish).

Watch Anthony Fasano’s TEDx talk on How Engineers Will Save the World:

Anthony is the 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 in various formal and informal workplace scenarios. Anthony …

Communication is pivotal to effective team performance; however, establishing good communication practices can be challenging, especially with teams that interact virtually and span across cultures with different expectations for communication. That’s where, Pam Brewer argues, metacommunication comes in. Metacommunication is communication about communication, and it helps teams of all …

The latest Wiley-IEEE Professional Communication Society book, The Fully Integrated Engineer: Combining Technical Ability and Leadership Prowess by Steven Cerri, is now out.
College teaches you to be a good engineer. But it’s likely that your college engineering courses didn’t have time to teach you how …

Another issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is now ready. This one features articles on various genres of interest to professional and technical communicators—instructional design, operating instructions, LinkedIn profiles, and software agreements:

Research Article: EfficientlyConnecting Textual and Visual Information in Operating Instructions; by Thora …

The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication has published a special issue on Component Content Management edited by Rebekka Andersen (University of California at Davis), and Tatiana Batova (Arizona State University).
This is the first major peer-reviewed publication on content management in our field since 2008 and …

If you were planning to submit to ProComm 16 but didn’t quite make the deadline, luck is with you today! Because of some technical difficulties with the submission site this week, we have extended the deadline to midnight on Monday, February 15, 2016. We welcome …

The Case Study Initiative is transforming undergraduate engineering education. The Case Study Writer will help introduce entrepreneurial engineering concepts to students by capturing interesting stories about real engineering situations. The stories that the Case Study Writer creates must be engaging while capturing important technical points …

Documentation for the general public from government entities, as well as medical, financial, and legal service providers, is often difficult for consumers to understand and follow. Such poorly prepared documents diminish consumers’ abilities to make informed decisions about their health, rights, and finances. These documents …

The deadline for submitting proposals to ProComm 2016, the annual conference of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, has been extended to: Monday, February 8, 2016.
You may submit your proposal of 350-700 words here: http://procomm2016.exordo.com/login
The conference theme is Communicating Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and it will take place in Austin, Texas, …