Published on June 25, 2025

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Free webinar to all who register.

PDH available via Registration portal.

Date: 26 June 2025

Time: 11:00 PM UTC to 12:00 AM UTC, which is 7:00 PM – 8:00PM Eastern time


Registration
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487163

See descriptions below.

Event Summary

Effective oral communication is a cornerstone of success in engineering and technical fields, whether delivering an academic conference talk, leading an industry team meeting, or pitching ideas to clients. This talk will focus on some basic tools needed to deliver impactful technical presentations tailored to diverse audiences and contexts. Participants will leave with practical strategies for creating and delivering high-quality presentations.

Sponsored by the Professional Communication Society Chapter of IEEE Philadelphia, the only PCS Chapter in the United States.

Speaker Bio

Alan Chong is an Associate Professor, Teaching, the Associate Director, Undergraduate, in the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto (UofT). He has over 25 years of teaching experience at UofT, where he focuses on integrating communication instruction into engineering and design courses. Viewing communication as a discipline-specific and lifelong learning process rather than an isolated skill, he fosters students’ abilities across multiple modes of discourse, including writing, reading, speaking, and visual communication. He is also the Immediate Past President of the IEEE Professional Communication Society (ProComm), where he has worked on creating opportunities for members of other IEEE societies to receive discipline specific communication training.