Alan Chong of IEEE

Biography:

Alan Chong is an Associate Professor, Teaching, the Associate Director, Undergraduate, in the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto (UofT). He has over 25 years of teaching experience at UofT, where he focuses on integrating communication instruction into engineering and design courses. Viewing communication as a discipline-specific and lifelong learning process rather than an isolated skill, he fosters students’ abilities across multiple modes of discourse, including writing, reading, speaking, and visual communication. He is also the Immediate Past President of the IEEE Professional Communication Society (ProComm), where he has worked on creating opportunities for members of other IEEE societies to receive discipline specific communication training.