Developing Best Practices for Teaching Scientific Documentation: Toward a Better Understanding of How Lab Notebooks Contribute to Knowledge-building in Engineering Design and Experimentation

Traci Nathans-Kelly, Ph.D., currently teaches full-time at Cornell University in the Engineering Communication Program. She instructs within that program and is seated as a co-instructor for partnered engineering courses in the AEP, CS/INFO, BEE, Materials, and other departments. Outside of Cornell, as a member of IEEE’s Professional Communication Society, she served as a series editor for the Professional Engineering Communication books and participates at the national level for that organization. Her book, with co-author Christine Nicometo and published with Wiley-IEEE Press, is called Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields (2014).