Director, Engineering Communications Program; Associate Director, ISTEP | alan.chong@utoronto.ca | 416-978-8512
Alan Chong coordinates communication instruction in Civil and Mineral Engineering, where he is also cross appointed. His teaching in CivMin focuses on developing student awareness of discipline specific genres and rhetorical strategies for communicating effectively within those genres. In Engineering Science, he also coordinates their thesis course and serves as their Associate Chair, Foundation Years.
Alan’s current research interests includes developing civic engagement in undergraduate engineering students and in building case studies in science communication for use in engineering classrooms, testing them out in his elective on Science and Technology in the Popular Media. He also serves as the IEEE Professional Communication Society’s Digital Content Curator.