SCSPE Fall Symposium, Informative and Immersive Communications Workshop

SCSPE Fall Symposium, an Informative and Immersive Communications Workshop with Dr. Lori Donath

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The half-day interactive workshop offers practical resources for professional communication, where participants take away tools they can integrate into daily practice. Workshop content is timely and tailored to participants' needs and interests, while less intensive and individualized than an online consultation.

As part of registration, participants submit drafts of at least two specific kinds of communication that they will use within three or four weeks of the workshop: 1) a one-page technical memorandum and (2) an “in process,” explanatory email to an existing client. The facilitator will provide general feedback about strengths and challenges in the documents provided and will guide the process of peer feedback on individual documents in small groups. Email your two drafts to Adam B. Jones with the subject line DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS FOR ROCK HILL FALL SYMPOSIUM

Participants revise documents in real time, leaving with documents ready for an audience. Note that workshop participants should bring a laptop or tablet on which to work.

Dr. Lori Donath is a specialist in language, culture, and communication. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics with a focus on linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. Her interest in how language works and how people create social life through language led her to doctoral research among engineering undergraduate researchers in a project that required students to explain their deliverables to peers across subfields. Part of a research team facilitating and investigating learning-through-communication, Donath analyzed interaction at the level of microseconds—alongside other data—to understand the process by which students co-created professional engineering identity. Donath also has consulted on academic papers for engineering faculty and graduate students in the Power and Energy Research Group run by Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus Roger Dougal at the University of South Carolina. Her recent research attends to shifts in the ways people represent the past, particularly in historic house museums in the Southeastern United States.

Host or Publisher South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers