2008

ASEE National, Pittsburgh, June 2008, "The Evolution of Professional Associations, Engineering Education and Information Literacy."

ASEE Mid-Atlantic, West Point, March 2008, "The Evolution of Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810-1925."

2007

SSHA (Social Sciences History Association), Chicago, November 2007, "The Steel Bible: The Evolution of an Industrial Text in Social History."

SHOT (Society for the History of Technology), Washington, October 2007, "Evolving Standards of Engineering Education and the Meaning of Degrees, 1870-1900."

Rhetorics and Technologies: 20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State College, PA, July 2007, "Traditional vs. PC Learning: Comparison in the Technical Communication Classroom."

ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Mid-Atlantic Conference, NJIT, April 2007, "Impediments to Increasing Diversity in Post-secondary Education."

ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing), New York Hilton, March 2007, "Robust Networks and Rapid Knowledge Transfer, 1870 to 2001."

CCCC - 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication), New York Hilton, March 2007, "The Steel Bible: Reading Texts as Social History."

STS - (Society for Textual Scholarship), New York University, March 2007, "The Steel Bible: The Evolution of an Industrial Text."

2006

SHOT (Society for the History of Technology), Las Vegas, October 2006, "Technological discussions in iron and steel, 1871-1885" with Peter B. Meyer, Research Economist, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing), Chicago, March 2006, "The Shift from Prediscursive to Written Technical Communication in the 19th Century American Iron Industry."

CCCC - 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication), Chicago, March 2006, "Analytic Scoring of Online Portfolios: Sustainable Assessment for the Technical Communication Service Course" on a panel with Norbert Elliot, Robert Friedman, Robert Lynch and Nancy Coppola.

2005

ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Mid-Atlantic Conference, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, April 2005, "Teaching Technical Communication in the Wired Classroom – the Transition from Blackboard to Computer Screen"; with Frank Casale and Michael Kerley.

Best Assessment Processes VII Symposium (sponsored by Rose-Hulman Institute and ABET), Rose-Hulman, Terra Haute, April 2005, "Cycles of Improvement: Assessing Validity in Technical Writing Programs Using Online Portfolios."

Ironmaster's Conference (hosted by the North Jersey Highlands Historical Society), Frank Lautenberg Visitor's Center, Sterling Forest, New York, October 2005, "Researching the Iron Industry, 1700-1900."

2004

ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Mid-Atlantic Conference, Washington, October 2004, "Beyond Cut Scores: Portfolio Assessment in Program Evaluation," with Norbert Elliot.

MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, Philadelphia, December 2004, “Technical Communication and Poststructuralism: Conducting Research under Contingent Conditions” sponsored by the ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing) with Norbert Elliot and Nancy Coppola.

2003

CPTSC (Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communications) Conference, Potsdam, NY, October 2003, “Theory vs. Practice: the Ongoing Battle.”

IEEE PCS (Professional Communication Society) IPCC (International Professional Communication Conference), Orlando, September 2003, “Knowledge Management and the Teaching of Technical Communication: Where does the Knowledge Reside in the Theory vs. Practice Debate?”

MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, San Diego, December 2003 “Teaching Technical Writing: A Professional’s Viewpoint” sponsored by the ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing).