I love talking about engineering presentations. One of the most rewarding activities that I do is helping engineers and technical experts become better presenters. When they succeed, they exceed even their own expectations. At school, they stand out from their peers (in a good way). On the job, they get promoted.
As I was updating my own faculty yearly activities form today, I realized that in the last four months, I have given more than a few presentations about presentations or I have functioned as an organizer or judge for presentation events. I’m very honored that my colleagues, students, and grad students find value in the advice I have to give. Here are some of the fine organizations that I have worked with this academic year on the Cornell campus alone.
| 2017, March 15 | Cornell’s Three-Minute Thesis, finals judge | https://gradschool.cornell.edu/academics/office-academic-affairs/three-minute-thesis%C2%AE |
| 2017, Feb 27 | Cornell Engineers Without Borders; presentation about presentations | http://blogs.cornell.edu/teams/2016-teams/ewb/ |
| 2017, Feb 16 | Cornell GradSWE; presentation about presentations | |
| 2016 and continuing | Cornell’s EERI Seismic Challenge student team; advising on competition report and presentation | https://blogs.cornell.edu/seismicdesignteam/ |
| 2017, Jan | Cornell Library Science Immersion Program; contributor and presenter | Provide communication instruction to a select number of graduate students in the sciences via Library Programs. http://guides.library.cornell.edu/ScienceImmersionProgram |
| 2016, Nov | Cornell SPARK talks; committee member | https://www.library.cornell.edu/sparktalks |
| 2016, Oct | Cornell SPARK talks; student evaluator | With the Cornell Libraries, presentation adviser and respondent. https://www.library.cornell.edu/sparktalks |
| 2016 and continuing | Cornell AguaClara; presentations workshops | Served as consultant for better presentation practices. Workshop training on technical presentations. http://aguaclara.cee.cornell.edu/ |
Traci Nathans-Kelly 