Day: August 8, 2019

Nancy Barr Presents on Professional Communication Preparation

Nancy Barr
Nancy Barr

Nancy Barr (Eng Com) presented a paper titled, “Divergent Courses: Preparing Graduate Students for Diverse Career Paths,” at the IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference in Aachen, Germany, July -24-26, 2019. The paper describes a two-course sequence in the ME-EM graduate engineering program that addresses the unique needs of students interested in either industry career paths or academia, regardless of language background. One course prepares students for communicating persuasively and collaboratively in business environments, while the second course focuses on the traditional research genres of journal papers, conference presentations, and grant proposals. Also, as secretary to the society’s Board of Governors, Barr attended the board’s annual meeting prior to the conference.