Andrew Malcolm earned a diploma in electrical technology in 1950 from West­chester Community College in New York. He worked as an electronics technician, design engineer, and chief draftsman before changing to become an engineering writer in 1960. Then, for ten years he worked as an engineering writer in the military and aerospace electronics industries. He returned to college and received a BS and MS in printing (1971, 1977). Since 1972, he taught English to engineering and science students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY and retired in 2001.

Prof. Malcolm has applied electronics to teaching English to the deaf using the syn­chronous display of print with speech sound. His research has included testing the efficacy of instruction by this simultaneous method, including demonstrating that flashing target words and morphemes on a video screen results in statistically signi­ficant improvement in student performance. He has also demonstrated improved learning techniques for hard-of-hearing students (as contrasted with the profoundly deaf) and the significance of class size, frequency, and attendance to learning.Prof. Malcolm has been a member of IEEE (IRE) since 1954 and has published many articles on a number of subjects in IEEE journals. He was general manager of the Indian River Engineer, the newsletter of the Cape Canaveral Section of IRE (1959-1962), general chair of the 1984 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, member of the IEEE-USA Health Care Engineering Policy Committee (1987-1991), editor for the IEEE-USA Technology Policy Council (1990-1992), and has given one or two S-PAC talks each year since 1995.

Prof. Malcolm has been president of the Teachers of English and Language Arts special interest group of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf and has been published in American Annals of the Deaf and Teaching to the Deaf and Second Language Learners. He has received many awards for writing, including the Gannet Newspapers' Golden Pen award. He is a fellow of the Society for Technical Communi­cation (STC), held several offices, was elected Secretary (2002—04), and has been published in STC journals.

Like anyone else seeking employment, engineers prepare their résumés to convince prospective employers of their abilities. Often, however, in writing their résumés, many applicants fail to respond to the needs of the readers, that is, their prospective employers. This presentation will focus on audience analysis for producing winning résumés. In large companies, résumés are usually read by personnel recruiters first. Only when approved by recruiters are résumés sent to the real employers. To write a résumé that wins an interview, an applicant must be aware of these dual roles and create a document that responds to the needs of both audiences.

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ENGINEERING WRITING

When electrical engineers communicate with printed words, their writing skills are exposed to customers, colleagues, and superiors. If their letters and reports to customers fail to communicate appropriately, their employers lose business. If engineers' reports and memos to colleagues and superiors obfuscate, they are likely to become less effective employees and are less likely to obtain employment rewards. This presentation will use the product approach to improved writing. Formats for technical and other announcements, letters, memoranda, news releases, proposals, reports and papers will be discussed, with examples. The speaker will also present simple, effective language structures to communicate complex ideas and will suggest word-processor techniques to maximize communication while saving the time of both writer and reader.

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HISTORY OF ELECTRICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

The education of electrical engineers is often so concentrated that little time is devoted to the history of their field. Having an understanding of how scientific discovery occurred and the order in which electrical inventions appeared gives an engineer a valuable perspective on today's technology. Did you know that the reason so much of the spectrum was allocated to UHF television channels was that it was believed that three times the bandwidth was needed to broadcast color as was needed to broadcast black and white?

The electron, unseen and unknown, has existed since the beginning of time, yet the benefits of its control have been applied for society's use for only about a hundred twenty-five years. This presentation will trace electrical discovery, science, and invention quickly from the Greek philosopher Thales (600 B.C.) and Ben Franklin (1706—1790) to Galvani, Faraday, Wheatstone, Morse, Bell, Edison, Westinghouse, Steinmetz, Tesla, Armstrong, DeForest, Zworkin, Shockley, et al. The presentation ends about 1984 with atomic power generation, stereo radio, color television, and mainframe computers.

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