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Traci Nathans-Kelly

Robert N. Noyce Director of the Engineering Communications Program

Traci Nathans-Kelly
Traci Nathans-Kelly

Biography

Nathans-Kelly’s area of specialization is in engineering, business, scientific, and technical communication with a focus on presentations. She has a special interest in social justice and techquity issues, along with online teaching modalities. She has worked with practicing professional engineers, technical experts, scientists, business leaders, and related field experts for over 30 years, helping them to strengthen their abilities to become impactful contributors in their organizations.

Nathans-Kelly is very active in IEEE, where current work includes co-authoring the “English for Technical Professionals” course for ILN (the largest selling course in these offerings from IEEE), committee commitments in several IEEE sectors, and serving on the Board of Governors for IEEE ProComm. She also served as the editor for the IEEE Professional Communication book series for Professional Engineering Communication, with 12 books on the shelves for the series.

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracinathanskelly/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4478-521X

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