I manage the electronic tools used for document repositories, including Lotus Notes databases and our internal Web. I also work with various departments to document their procedures with flow charts and accompanying text. My education helped me become familiar with software and various technologies that I use daily. By providing a fairly wide range of technologies that use those classes, the STC Program allowed me to get used to learning new software quickly. The Internet writing courses and projects also helped develop writing skills that can effectively communicate a variety of topics.
Senior projects provide excellent experience in dealing with a client to complete a project.
Additional oral presentations using electronic presentation technologies as opposed to transparencies may have better prepared me for presenting to corporate audiences. More projects relating directly to technical writing would help give graduates experience and writing samples-two critical items for the job search. As mentioned above, HU333 and HU433 are critical for STC majors. I think it would be valuable to consider a HU333 course directed to STC majors. Almost all Tech students have to take it, but STC majors should receive different, possibly more intense, technical-writing training.