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Please use this link to vote: https://eballot.app/ieee
Our slate of candidates can be viewed on this page, and the voting page will have more information about each of the candidates.
Volume 66, Number 3, September 2023
What Eye Tracking Can Show Us About How People Are Influenced by Deceptive Tactics in Line Graphs, Claire Lauer and Christopher A. Sanchez
Graphs, especially those that are generated automatically, are often subject to mistakes in their processing, framing, and construction, sending …
Volume 66, Number 2, June 2023
RESEARCH ARTICLES
To Interact and to Narrate: A Categorical Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Twitter Use by US Banks and Energy Corporations, Y. Sun, D. Kong, and L. Zhai
This study used summary language variables of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) as dimensions of …
By Kohava Mendelsohn
Recently, Chat GPT was released for use by the public by OpenAI. It is an extremely advanced AI chat bot that can answer queries for you. I think of it as a very advanced autocomplete system, taking in input as questions and outputting …
By Chat GPT
Effective communication is a key skill for any engineer to have, regardless of their level of experience or the specific industry they work in. Whether you are communicating with your colleagues, clients, or other stakeholders, the way you communicate can significantly impact …
By Kohava Mendelsohn
As a Professional Engineer, it is important to be convincing in many circumstances: Convincing companies to hire you, convincing people to invest in your business, and convincing customers your product is what they desired. Much like today, in Ancient Greece there was much …
Congratulations to Michigan Tech professors Nancy Barr and Jaclyn Johnson, authors of “Trajectories in Turmoil: A Case Study of Engineering Students’ Reactions to Disruptions in their Community of Practice” in the March 2021 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. The article has been selected …
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 students are probably familiar …
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 collaboration, and geographic dispersion.
Industry …
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., losing out on the …