Announcements

STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dear Colleagues:
As you know, one of the most prestigious awards one can achieve is the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching.  This year the Award Committee is seeking nominations from you for this award.  Please help us recognize excellence in teaching through …

IEEE Region 4 Student Leadership Conference (SLC): October 4 – 6th

The University of Minnesota is hosting the 2013 IEEE Region 4 Student Leadership Conference (SLC)! The conference will be held October 4th-6th at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus.
The SLC offers many exciting opportunities including but not limited to:

Leadership Training: Officer Leadership Training …

Call for Submissions for Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Call for Submissions:
Spring 2015 Special Issue on Content Management
Guest Editors: Rebekka Andersen (University of California, Davis) and
Tatiana Batova (Arizona State University)
Deadline for Submissions: October 31, 2013
Content management is a set of methodologies, processes, and technologies that let professional and technical communicators …

SIGDOC Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) Issue 1.3 Now Available

ACM SIGDOC is proud to announce that the Communication Design Quarterly  (CDQ) is now available on their website: http://sigdoc.acm.org/april-cdq-released/
This issue features the proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on  Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) of which SIGDOC was a sponsor.
CDQR publishes four issues per year.  It seeks …

Call for Papers: 2013 CPTSC Research Grants

The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites interested members to apply for research grants up to $1,500. CPTSC funds research projects that contribute to our collective knowledge about all aspects of program administration. Proposed research projects should relate to one or …

IEEE Robotics & Automation Society extends an invitation to PCS members

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society extends an invitation to PCS members to attend a webinar on professional communication, presented by Dr. Julia Williams, president of PCS.
Improving Workplace Email Using the STOP Method, Thursday, 30 May 19:00 – 20:00
Past Webinars:
The Power of Presentations: Make Yours Informative, Persuasive, …

Announcing a New Book in the IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series – Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication

Paperback
Editors: Han Yu and Gerald Savage
To purchase:  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118061616.html
Given today’s globalized technical and engineering environment, intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers, other technical professionals, and technical communicators to learn. Engineering programs, in particular, need to think about how to address the ABET requirement for …