2011

ASEE Mid-Atlantic, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 18, 2011, "Written Knowledge and Complex Technology: A Case Study of the American Institute of Mining Engineers."

North Jersey Highlands Historical Society, June 29, 2011, “Fight! - Geology and Passion in the Early State Geological Reports .”

ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing) and CCCC - 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication), Atlanta, March 2011. ATTW - "Expanding Networks of Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1925 to 1998" poster presentation and Ceremony for Technical and Scientific Communication Awards . 4Cs - moderator for "Disconnected. Choppy. Abrubt. - Undoing Linguistic Heterogeneity."

2010

Highlands Conference, 24th Annual Highlands Archaeological and Historical Conference , Sterling Forest, NY, October 23, 2010, “Documentation of the Early Iron Industry: Robert Erskine's 1770 Letters about the British Iron Industry and his American Letters and Maps.”

ASEE Mid-Atlantic, Villanova University, PA, October 15-16, 2010, "The Importance of Literacy in Engineering Education: a Case Study from Lukens Steel, 1910-1940."

2009

Robeling Chapter, SIA, 29th Annual Drew Symposium on Industrial Archaeology, Madison, NJ, November, 2009, "Ironmaking in the Highlands Region in New York and New Jersey, 1764-1954."

Society for Industrial Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2009, "Reconstruction by Documentation: the Case of Lukens Steel."

Invited Talk at Graystone Society, Coatesville PA, May 2009, "The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810-1925."

2008

ASEE Mid-Atlantic, Stevens Institute of Technology, October 2008, "The Components of Communication – Analytic Assessment in the Technical Writing Classroom."

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, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, April 2007, "Impediments to Increasing Diversity in Post-secondary Education."

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

CCCC - 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication), New York, 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, NJ, 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, IN, 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, NY, 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, CA, December 2003 “Teaching Technical Writing: A Professional’s Viewpoint” sponsored by the ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing).