Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

almost all of the engineering majors in our College(typically in their junior or early senior year). All told, we teach 600 - 700 engineering studentsper year in this class alone.Although we are housed in our own College of Engineering, we face challenges similar to thosedescribed by other non-engineering faculty or instructors with specific expertise in teachingwriting. Even where the writing-across-the-curriculum instructors have developed a fullyintegrated model for teaching communication within engineering design courses, they articulateconcerns we share. Craig, Lerner, and Poe, of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies atMIT, have written about these shared challenges; they ask -- how can we help students “movefrom general academic