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Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of California, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from University of Southern California. Currently focusing his career on engineering communication and professionalism, he has worked as a design engineer and technical education specialist for Parker-Hannifin Aerospace and Hewlett-Packard Inkjet. Henderson was featured in the book—Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers by Tom Moran (IEEE Press 2011)—as one of twelve ”literary engineers” writing and publishing creative works in the United States. Henderson’s current project is a book pioneering a new method for teaching engineers workplace writing skills through the lens of math. A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers: Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms is forthcoming from Spring Nature, 2017.

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Ruth Ann McKinney, M.Ed., J.D., Emeritus Clinical Professor and former Assistant Dean, directed the writing program and academic success programs at the University of North Carolina School of Law for more than twenty years. Professor McKinney is the author of Legal Research: A Practical Guide & Self-Instructional Workbook (West 5th ed. 2008) and Reading Like a Lawyer (Carolina Academic Press 2d ed. 2012), and she is the original senior editor of the national academic support website, LawSchoolASP.org. Together with co-author Katie Rose Guest Pryal, she published Core Grammar for Lawyers, the first in the Core Grammar online series, in 2011, and received the national Academic Success Section Award from the American Association of Law Schools in 2014. She has most recently put together a team of engineering educators and digital learning experts to publish Core Grammar for Engineers, a discourse-specific, self-instructional program for engineering students that will be released in 2016-17 (see www.thegrammarproject.com).

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Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment and Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical communication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among others.

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