Lisa McNair
Assistant Professor
Co-director of Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center
620 McBryde Hall
(540)-231-1144
(540)-231-6903 FAX
Education Research Experience
Education
Linguistics University of Chicago 2002 M.S. English University of Georgia 1995 English University of Georgia 1983
Research
| Title | Program | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Connections within the Engineering Education Research Community (Co-PI) | NSF ENGINEERING EDUCATION | 5/1/2007 | 4/30/2009 | $153,691.00 |
| Preparing Engineering Students for the Challenges of Interdisiplinary Design Teams | NSF ENG DIVERSITY ACTIVITIES, ENGINEERING EDUCATION | 3/1/2007 | 2/28/2010 | $475,475.00 |
| CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Collaborative Research - A National Engineering Dissection Cyber-Collaboratory (Co-PI) | NSF CI-TEAM | 1/1/2007 | 12/31/2008 | $104,378.00 |
| Building Interdisciplinary Collaboration Skills Through a Green Engineering Capstone Design Experience (Co-PI) | NSF CCLI-Phase 1 (Exploratory), S-STEM:SCHLR SCI TECH ENG&MATH | 1/1/2007 | 6/30/2009 | $142,715.00 |
| SGER: Facilitating Effective Communication in Interdisciplinary Design Teams | NSF GRANT OPP FOR ACAD LIA W/ INDUS, ENGINEERING DESIGN | 7/1/2006 | 12/31/2007 | $100,000.00 |
Teaching
- ENGE 5014: FOUNDATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
- Liaison between Mining Safety and Health Academy (MSHA) and VT Engineering Education department for developing risk communication curriculum.
- Curriculum developer and coordinator of international teams (Literature, Culture and Digital Media Program, Blekinge Institute of Technology 2003-present)
Experience
Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech 2005 - Present Associate Director Technical Communications Program, Department of Literature, Communication & Culture, Georgia Tech 2002 – 2005 Brittain Fellow Dept of Literature, Communication & Culture, Georgia Tech 2000 – 2002 Writer/Producer SRA/McGraw-Hill, Atlanta, GA 1998 – 2000 Adjunct Professor English, Reinhardt College, Atlanta, GA 1997 – 1998 Teaching Assistant Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago 1995 – 1996 Publications Coordinator Chicago Humanities Institute 1994 – 1995 Instructor Department of English, University of Georgia 1992 – 1993 Assistant to the Editor Urban Geography, Athens, GA 1991 – 1992 Technical Writer Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA 1989 – 1990 Editor and Graphic Designer IPC, Inc., Atlanta, GA 1987 – 1989
Recognitions
- Co-recipient of Frontier's in Education's 2008 Helen Plants Award for Best Special Session, 2008
- Liaison between Mining Safety and Health Academy (MSHA) and VT Engineering Education department for developing risk communication curriculum.
- Collaborator with English Department to create bridge between engineering and the humanities in order to increase retention of female engineering students.
- Curriculum developer and coordinator of international teams (Literature, Culture and Digital Media Program, Blekinge Institute of Technology 2003-present)
- Co-coordinator of Engineering Leadership Network designed to promote servant leadership at Virginia Tech.
Publications
McNair, L. D., Paretti, M. C., and A. Kakar. (forthcoming 2008). Case Study Case Study of Prior Knowledge: Expectations and Identity Constructions in Interdisciplinary, Cross-cultural Virtual Collaboration. International Journal of Engineering Education.
Paretti, M.C., and McNair, L.D., Communicating in Global Virtual Teams, Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices, edited by Zemliansky, P., and St. Amant, K. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2008 (in press).
Paretti, M.C. and L.D. McNair, editors, IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication: Special Issue on Engineering Communication, (2008, forthcoming).
McNair, L., M. Paretti, and A. Kakar*, “Case Study of Prior Knowledge: Expectations and Identity Construction in Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Virtual Collaboration,” Proceedings of the 2007 Harvey Mudd Design Workshop VI, “Design and Engineering Education in a Flat World,” May 23-25, 2007. Mss. under review at International Journal of Engineering Education. *Graduate student.
Paretti, M.C., L. McNair, and L. Holloway-Attaway. “Teaching Technical Communication in an Era of Distributed Work: A Case Study of Collaboration between U.S. and Swedish Students.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 2007.
Gordon, J., L. McNair, and J. Hoey. “Team Members are Stakeholders: Successful Collaboration in Writing Assessment.” Assessment to Foster Effective Writing and Deeper Thinking, editor Terri L. Flateby. Herndon, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2007.
McNair, L. Mill Villagers and Farmers: Economics and Dialect Shift in a small southern town. 2005. Special issue of the Publications of the American Dialect Society, Duke, NC: Duke Univ Press.
Borrego, M., L. McNair, and L. Newswander, “Special Session: Applying Theories of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Research and Teaching Practice.” Workshop presented at Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 10-13, 2007.
Lo, Jenny, Michael Alley, Lisa McNair, Whitney Edmister, “Promoting Undergraduate Research by Creating a Research Option in a Technical Communication course”, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 24-27, 2007.
M. Paretti and L. McNair, “Teaching to Transfer: Establishing a Rhetorical Foundation for Communication Practices Through an Engineering – First-Year Composition Partnership,” Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 24-27, 2007.
Paretti, M., L. McNair, and M. Alley, “Integrated Engineering Communications Programs: (Dis)Locating the Boundaries.” Paper presented at the Writing across the curriculum Conference (WAC), Clemson, SC, May 17-20, 2006.