Traci Nathans-Kelly

Traci Nathans-Kelly, Ph.D., currently teaches for Cornell University’s College of Engineering as well as eCornell. As a member of the Engineering Communications Program, she interacts daily to help engineers hone their technical messaging, whether it be via presentations, on paper, in meetings and teams, or through online channels. Dr. Nathans-Kelly has worked with practicing professional engineers, technical experts, scientists, and related field experts for over 20 years, helping them to strengthen their abilities to become impactful contributors in their organizations. She served as the editor for the IEEE Professional Communication book series for Professional Engineering Communication, with 12 books on the shelves for the series. Dr. Nathans-Kelly’s book, “Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields,” was co-authored with Christine G. Nicometo.

Aside from campus teaching, Dr. Nathans-Kelly conducts workshops and training for such entities as The Boeing Company, Flad Architects, IEEE-USA, Wolters Kluwer, and a host of others. In the past, she has trained practicing engineers and technical experts at AT&T, CN Railroad, FedEx, GE, Google, Harley-Davidson, IBM, Intel, John Deere, Johnson Controls, Kohler, Kraft, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, Mercury Marine, Motorola, NASA, Ocean Spray, Sanofi Pasteur, Sirius, SkullCandy, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, the U.S. National Security Agency, the U.S. Navy/Nuclear Submarines, and many more.

Publications

• Understanding engineering work and identity: a cross-case analysis of engineers within six firms KJB Anderson, SS Courter, T McGlamery, TM Nathans-Kelly, ... 2010
• Understanding the current work and values of professional engineers: Implications for engineering education K Anderson, S Courter, T McGlamery, T Nathans-Kelly, C Nicometo 2009
• “More Than Just Engineers” How Engineers Define And Value Communication Skills On The Job. C Nicometo, K Anderson, T Nathans-Kelly, S Courter, T McGlamery 2010
• Slide rules: design, build, and archive presentations in the engineering and technical fields T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Creating communicative self-efficacy through integrating and innovating engineering communication instruction TM Nathans-Kelly, R Evans 2017
• Special session: Moving towards the intended, explicit, and authentic: Addressing misalignments in engineering learning within secondary and university education K Anderson, SS Courter, AC Prevost, CG Nicometo, MJ Nathan, ... 2011
• In Situ Ethics: The Ethical Sensibility That Engineers Bring To Their Work T Nathans-Kelly, S Courter, K Anderson, C Nicometo, T McGlamery 2010
• The role of public (mis) perceptions in the acceptance of new food technologies: Implications for food nanotechnology applications ML Nucci, WK Hallman 2015
• Work in progress-educational implications of personal history, undergraduate experience, and professional values of practicing engineers C Grohowski-Nicometo, T Nathans-Kelly, KJB Anderson 2009
• Slide rules: design, build, and archive presentations in the engineering and technical fields T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2015
• Mind the gap: Using lessons learned from practicing engineers to teach engineering ethics to undergraduates CG Nicometo, T Nathans-Kelly, B Skarzynski 2014
• Meshing goals: Bringing a Computer-Aided Engineering course with Biomedical Applications, Engineering Communications, and FDA Reporting guidelines into alignment towards … T Nathans-Kelly, R Evans, AK Datta 2017
• We WOVE, we designed, we conquered: Assessing engineering self-efficacy in a Mechanical Engineering Communication Initiative—Instructor and student perspectives T Nathans-Kelly, R Evans, L Klein, J Zhang 2017
• Benefits To Non Engineers Of Learning An Engineering Way Of Thinking K Anderson, C Nicometo, S Courter, T McGlamery, T Nathans-Kelly 2010
• Children Communicating Food Safety/Teaching Technical Communication to Children: Opportunities Gleaned from the FIRST® LEGO® League 2011 Food Factor Challenge D Wright, T Nathans-Kelly 2015
• Empowering early mastery of spatial visualization skills in under represented minority engineering students OO Adebayo, EJ Farrar, R Evans, TL McCray, T Nathans-Kelly 2014
• Understand Audience Needs T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Power presenting for cognitive retention and organizational longevity TM Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2012
• More Than Just Engineers": How Practicing Engineers Define and Value Communication Skills On the Job C Nicometo, K Anderson, T Nathans-Kelly, S Courter, T McGlamery 2010
• Developing Best Practices for Teaching Scientific Documentation: Toward a Better Understanding of How Lab Notebooks Contribute to Knowledge-building in Engineering Design and … R Evans, J Moses, TM Nathans-Kelly 2020
• Workshop: Active Statements of Diversity in Engineering and Technical Courses, Part II T Nathans-Kelly, EJ Farrar 2018
• Seeing and strategizing diversity in engineering classrooms and labs T Nathans-Kelly, E Farrar, FO Adebayo 2017
• Whose idea is it anyway?: Students communicating innovative and entrepreneurial work and the quagmire of ownership at the university level CS Diaz, TM Nathans-Kelly 2016
• Communication Practices in Engineering, Manufacturing, and Research for Food and Water Safety T Nathans-Kelly 2015
• Yes, We Teach Presentations Online and It Works: Methods for Teaching Technical Presentations to Practicing Engineers in an Online Environment
• CG Nicometo, TM Nathans-Kelly 2015
• IEEE Press Series on Professional Engineering Communication D Wright, T Nathans-Kelly 2015
• Temper the Templates T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Build Information Incrementally T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Generate Quality Graphs T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Apply Cognitive Science and Tell a Story T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Thinking Through the Next Big Thing T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Clarify Topics with Full-Sentence Headers T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Include More Than One Language T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Challenge Your Organization's Culture of Text-Heavy Slides T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Picture the Possibilities T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Make Slide Decks with Archival and Legacy Value T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Enact Organizational Change T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Heed the Pleas for Better Presentations T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2014
• Sliding headfirst: Engineering work, presentations, and translations T Nathans-Kelly, CG Nicometo 2013
• Mapping genres in order to facilitate the teaching and learning of writing in the disciplines (work in progress) R Evans, GD Fuchs, T Nathans-Kelly 2013
• Informed Influence: Preparing Graduate Engineers to Present with Power Instead of Just PowerPoint CG Nicometo, TM Nathans-Kelly 2011
• Informed Influence: Preparing Graduate Engineering Students to Present with Power and Not Just PowerPoint CG Nicometo, TM Nathans-Kelly 2011
• Finding A" Place" For Reading And Discussion Courses: Design And Assessment Of" Social And Ethical Impacts Of Technology" K Oliver, T Nathans-Kelly, S Courter, L Grossenbacher 2007