Style and Ethics of Communication in Science and Engineering

About Jay D. HumphreyJeffrey W. Holmes

Jay D. Humphrey Ph.D. is John C. Malone Professor and former Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. He was previously Regents Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University where he first developed a course on technical communication and received a college-wide award for teaching.  He earned a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Engineering Science and Mechanics and completed post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University in Cardiovascular Research.  Jeffrey W. Holmes M.D. Ph.D. is Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was previously Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) where he was also inaugural Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine. This initiative was designed to drive medical innovation by fostering partnerships between engineers and clinicians. Prior to UVA he taught at Columbia University and helped to found and build a new biomedical engineering department there. He earned a M.D. and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering both from the University of California San Diego.