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Alan ChongDirector, Engineering Communication Program Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Teaching: Alan Chong coordinates communication instruction in Civil and Mineral Engineering, where he is also cross appointed. His teaching in CivMin focuses on developing student awareness of discipline specific genres and rhetorical strategies for communicating effectively within those genres. In Engineering Science, he also coordinates their thesis course and serves as their Associate Chair, Foundation Years. Professional Activity: Alan’s current research interests includes developing civic engagement in undergraduate engineering students and in building case studies in science communication for use in engineering classrooms, testing them out in his elective on Science and Technology in the Popular Media. He also serves as the IEEE Professional Communication Society’s Digital Content Curator. |
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Dr. Robert IrishAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream |
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Dr. Ken TallmanAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus |
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Dr. Deborah TihanyiAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream Communication Coordinator: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Teaching: Deborah Tihanyi co-coordinates communication in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, working in courses along the design spine to develop students’ professional communication skills. She also works with graduate students in the Collaborative Program in Engineering Education. Professional Activity: Deborah has a number of research interests that tie directly into her teaching practice, including the development of professional identity and the impact of TA training in engineering education. |
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Dr. Peter Eliot WeissAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus |
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Lydia WilkinsonAssistant Professor, Teaching Stream Teaching: Lydia Wilkinson coordinates communication in Chemical Engineering, supporting her students’ success by connecting classroom learning to current engineering projects and their future workplace. Professional Activity: Lydia’s current research investigates interdisciplinary skills transfer with a specific focus on humanities integration for engineers.
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Ted Nolan
Part-time Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Communication Coordinator: APS 111, 112 and 113: Engineering Strategies and Practices
emartin.nolan@utoronto.ca
Teaching: Ted coordinates communication in Engineering Strategies and Practices. He focuses on decision making in communication processes and how that impacts composition, with a special focus one multimodal and collaborative composition.
Professional Activity: Ted is a writer and poet by training and is currently pursuing a PhD in Applied Linguistics at York University. He is the author of the poetry collection, Still Point (Invisible Publishing, 2017), and is currently researching the role of language in engineering design education and practice. He publishes under the name E Martin Nolan.
Jennifer Lofgreen
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
MSE294/295: Communications
j.lofgreen@utoronto.ca
Teaching: Jenny is excited to return to ECP to teach MSE294/295, a 2 two-part course aimed at building on communication principles.
Professional Activity: With an existing PhD in Materials Chemistry, Jenny is currently working on a second PhD, this time in engineering education, that focuses on using philosophy of science to help academic teachers and academic developers in the STEM disciplines (mainly engineering) better understand and engage with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). She is also an Associate Editor for Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the ISSOTL journal.
Chanelle Small-Reid
Academic Administrative Coordinator
416-978-4421 ECP|ILEAD|ISTEP
istep.academic@utoronto.ca
Duties: Chanelle coordinates the recruitment of Teaching Assistants, Course Instructors, Sessional lecturers, Writing Instructors and Stipend Instructors. She ensures that contracts meet the current CUPE 3902 collective agreement requirements, and serves as a resource to others providing administrative guidance accordingly.