Announcements

Call for Papers: Suzhou-Silicon Valley-Beijing International Innovation Conference

We are calling for papers for the 2013 “Suzhou-Silicon Valley-Beijing” International Innovation Conference, which will be held in Suzhou, China during July 8-9, 2013.
The conference is jointly sponsored by the Center for Enterprise Innovation and Development at Soochow University, Lucas Graduate School of Business at …

Effective Risk Communication: Theory, Tools, and Practical Skills for Communicating about Risk

Harvard School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Professional Education
March 18-20, 2013 Boston, MA
This introductory program explores the scientific foundations for effective risk communication. Participants will gain the skills necessary to communicate about risk to various audiences by working with different perspectives and encouraging more reasoned behavior among …

Call for Papers: International Engineering Communication

Colleagues,
Please consider submitting or sharing with interested colleagues:
connexions Journal Special Issue on International Engineering Communication Call for Proposals
The value of written and oral communication within both engineering practice and education is well understood by our discipline and has been addressed through multiple classroom and workplace studies. The …

Nominations for the 2013 STC Ken Rainey Excellence in Research Award

Please help us continue to honor the distinguished research contributions of Dr. Ken Rainey by nominating yourself or a colleague for the prestigious 2013 STC Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research. The Ken Rainey award celebrates Ken Rainey’s passion for research that results in significant improvements to technical communication, especially to practice. It rewards a lifetime of quality research in the field, a single high-quality empirical study, or a set of related high-quality studies.

RosEvaluation Conference 2013 – Call for Proposals

Educators are searching for tools that can help them assess and evaluate their students’ achievement of defined learning outcomes in fields as diverse as engineering, business, health professions, math, science and technology (to name a few). These assessments and evaluations are part of a national …

The first book in the PCS-sponsored series is on the shelves!

Entitled Information Overload: An International Challenge for Professional Engineers and Technical Communicators with authors/editors Judith Strother, Jan Ulijn, Zohra Fazal, we are excited to showcase this book that addresses the ever-increasing problem of information overload from both the corporate and academic perspectives. Especially for …