The goal of this talk is to reflect on lessons learned over 30 years of the Engineering Communication Program. But more, it celebrates the ways in which our unique program has integrated communication as core to engineering disciplines. In the process, students’ understanding of their fields and themselves has grown from solely technical to social and transformative with communication as the empowering force.

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Robert Irish is the founder of the Engineering Communication Program at University of Toronto. He directed the program from 1995-2008. During his time at U of T, he has taught in every department of Engineering. Currently, he is the Associate Director of Engineering Science for Years One and Two. He teaches Language and Power (TEP322), Communication 1 in Civil Engineering (CIV282), and Engineering and Society in Engineering Science (ESC203). His recent work focuses on how students learn and structure argument, and Care Ethics in engineering education. He is the author of two textbooks: Engineering Communication: from Principles to Practice (Oxford, co-authored with Peter Eliot Weiss), and Writing in Engineering: A Brief Guide (Oxford, 2016).

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