Thursday, February 25, 2016

My Interview Subjects

Subject 1

Jerzy Rozenblit














Pete Brown.  "Jerzy Rozenblit Gala" 11/14/2014 via Wikipedia.  Public Domain.



Job Title:  
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona.

Years Active:
 1986 - Present

Education:

  • Ph.D.: Computer Science, Wayne State University, 1985.
  • M.S.: Computer Science, Wayne State University, 1983.
  • M.S.: Computer Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, 1980.
Interview Date:
Wednesday, February 24th at 3:30 PM.  ECE room 506.

Interview Questions:
1.  How would you describe your job or roles here at the University of Arizona?  And have your duties changed over the years?

2.  What is your writing process like when creating a publication?  What are your planning, writing, and editing processes like?

3.  So I was able to find a good number of your publications online, and I noticed that most of them were styled like articles with headings and subheadings to break apart the information.  My question is, are there times where you work in audio/visual genres such as in something like a conference presentation?

4.  What kind of audiences do you find yourself writing to or for in your work?  

5.  When creating publications, how much consideration do you give to your audience?  Is there ever much consideration to people who are not in your professional field?

6.  Over the course of your career, how has writing in the engineering field changed or evolved, have social media and the emergence of the internet played a role?

7.  I noticed in your publications that there are generally figures and drawings and what not, and so I was wondering what tools/software do you make use of when writing?

8.  When writing, are you ever on a schedule where you have to get it done at a certain time?  Is procrastination ever a problem?

9.  How much work is put into the brainstorming and research aspects of your publications?

10.  How do you handle peer reviewing?

11.  Where do you generally publish your works?

Subject 2

Thu Tran

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Job Title:  
Software Engineering Manager at General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Years Active:
 1986 - Present

Education:
Bachelors in Software Engineering, Iowa State University, 1984.

Interview Date:
Saturday, February 27,  1:00 PM over the phone.

Interview Questions:
1.  What is your job duties at General Dynamics?  How has your duties changed over the years?

2.  What is your writing process like (planning, writing, revising, etc.)?

3.  What are the most common writing genres that you write in, or do you do more of audio/visual genres such as presentations?

4.  How big of a role does social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) play in your job?

5.  What is your envisioned audience when you are creating work?

6.  What are some examples of audiences that were hard to write for?

7.  What tools/software do you use when working on projects?

8.  How much work is put into the planning and brainstorming of a project compared to the actual drafting and revision stages?

9.  Where do you generally publish your work?






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