This is a site designed for use by students and teachers of technical communication at Michigan Technological University. This site, from New Mexico State University, is perhaps not as exhaustive as the previous, but features a particularly handsome and user-friendly design. Professional Associations Technical Communication Society for Technical Communication STC is a professional association that advances the arts and sciences of technical communication. Its 25,000 members include technical writers, editors, graphic designers, multimedia artists, Web and Intranet page information designers, translators and others. Technical Writing A site especially useful for keeping abreast of developments in technical communication, this site features links to publications, conferences and programs.
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Those listed below are long established and have large memberships. Most pages have links to conferences, papers, and job announcements. The IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., is the largest professional society of electrical and electronic engineers. The online version of the prestigious science weekly, this site features full text of the current issue, and and past issues to June 1997. The Case of the Killer Robot is a detailed role-playing scenario which offers students a hueristic excercise on the impact of ethics in software engineering.