Biography
Rick Evans, Ph.D., is a Sociolinguist and was the Robert N. Noyce Director of the Engineering Communications Program (ECP) in the College of Engineering at Cornell University before his retirement. He has published articles/chapters and presented and published proceedings at national and international conferences in the fields of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, literacy studies, performance studies, folklore/anthropology, business education, engineering education and professional communication. He is currently serving on the steering committee of The Forum for the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. For several years, he has been partnering with the Office of Engaged Initiatives at Cornell and has long been a proponent and practitioner of community-engaged teaching and learning. Currently, he is a principle investigator (PI) in the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project entitled “We are Thriving: Challenging negative discourse through the voices of women in project teams.”