Prof. Christian Casper, U of M Professor
Contact:
Tamra Ward
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Ann Arbor North
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Aug 07, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
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About Christian:
I'm a lecturer of technical communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, where my pedagogical interests lie in communication within the fields of aerospace, biomedical, and chemical engineering and in the first-year experience. I have research interests in rhetor. I'm a lecturer of technical communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, where my pedagogical interests lie in communication within the fields of aerospace, biomedical, and chemical engineering and in the first-year experience.
I have research interests in rhetorics of science and technology, genre theory, and discourse analysis, and I continually seek to translate material from this work into pedagogical tools to improve communication practices in engineering, particularly within the design-build-test cycle.Education:
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
Examination areas: rhetoric of science, genre studies, computer-mediated communication
M.A., Eastern Michigan University
Department of English Language and Literature
Concentration: Written Communication
M.S., University of Michigan
Department of Chemistry
Concentration: Inorganic Chemistry
B.S., Iowa State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Major: Chemistry, minor: Biology
I have research interests in rhetorics of science and technology, genre theory, and discourse analysis, and I continually seek to translate material from this work into pedagogical tools to improve communication practices in engineering, particularly within the design-build-test cycle.Education:
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
Examination areas: rhetoric of science, genre studies, computer-mediated communication
M.A., Eastern Michigan University
Department of English Language and Literature
Concentration: Written Communication
M.S., University of Michigan
Department of Chemistry
Concentration: Inorganic Chemistry
B.S., Iowa State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Major: Chemistry, minor: Biology