Dr. Anneliese Watt is an English professor who specializes in engineering communication, genres, rhetoric, and British literature. She teaches a popular political rhetoric course in which students analyze the campaign rhetoric of presidential candidates. Dr. Watt has also taught the Grand Challenges summer course, through which students must address one of 14 global grand challenges identified by the National Academy of Engineering. She is currently teaching in the Institute's new Engineering Design program, bringing communication and humanities content to interdisciplinary, co-taught Design Studios.
Academic Degrees
- BA, Baldwin-Wallace College, 1992
- MA, The Pennsylvania State University, 1994
- PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Awards & Honors
Publications & Presentations
- Watt, A., Bernal, A., and Kirkpatrick, S., “Usability Testing: Influencing Design Decisions and Improving Documentation,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2016
- Watt, A., Bernal, A., and Kirkpatrick, S., “Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineers,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2016
- Watt, A., House, R., Livingston, J., and Summers, S., “Elevator Pitches, Crowdfunding, and the Rhetorical Politics of Entrepreneurship,” IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Austin, Texas, 2016
- Watt, A. and Summers, S., “Quick and Dirty Usability Testing in the Technical Communication Classroom,” IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 2015
- Watt, A., Bernal, A., and Kirkpatrick, S., “What’s in the Soup? Auto-ethnographies from an Engineer, a Physicist, and an English Professor Regarding a Successful Multidisciplinary Grand Challenge Program,” Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2014
Research Experiences
- Engineering communication
- Rhetoric
- Medicine in literature
Teaching Interests
- Engineering design studio
- Technical and professional communication
- Rhetoric and composition
- Public speaking
- Literature