Research Interests

• Globalization in Engineering Communications
• Technical and Professional Communications: Preparing the engineer for the workplace through current and changing standards
• Critical discourse analysis (CDA) — discursive patterns and reproduction of ideologies in technical professions--discourse communities in engineering cultures
• Bakhtinian and Barthian Studies — applications of dialogism, heterogeneity, carnivalesque, intertextuality, hybrid identities, in engineering, global, and communications
   

Education

• Master of Arts in English, English Department, Virginia Tech, May 2001
• Bachelor of Arts, English Studies: Language, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines, October 1995
   

Courses

• MSE 2884: Professional Development 1
• MSE 3884: Professional Development 2
• MSE 2044: Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering (Communications Component)
• MSE 2014: Transition to Materials Science and Engineering 
• MSE 3314: Materials Laboratory I (Communications Component)
• MSE 4414: Physical Ceramics (Communications Component)
• MSE 4424: Materials Laboratory II (Communications Component)