Episode 7 [Unedited]

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This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Tony Eng. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Tony Eng , Lead Instructor of Gradcommx & Senior Lecturer MIT EECS 6.UAT Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick , Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to the following editors who provided us invaluable feedback that aided in the development of this show: Christopher O’Keeffe , Co-Founder of Podcation Kristy Bennet , Manager – MIT Women’s League Jennifer Cherone , Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Laboratory Erik Tillman , Phd, Formerly of the Kim Lab & Currently A Fellow at Vida Ventures, LLC The Great Communicators Podcast is a part of Gradcommx. Gradcommx, targeted at enhancing research communication, is the first offering of Gradx – a professional development project created for the graduate student population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Office For Graduate Education. MUSIC & SOUNDS “Divider” by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org) EPISODE SCRIPT Print The Script Here ADAM GREENFIELD Hello, Adam Greenfield here, host of The Great Communicators podcast series. What you’re about to hear is the full, unedited interview with one of the guests we spoke with. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, I definitely encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. You can find them all at gradx.mit.edu/podcasts. The idea behind these longer, unedited conversation is to give you an opportunity to hear the entire talk, warts and all. This is not only a fun way to hear the full flow of the conversation but it also emphasizes the importance of the points made in the shorter, produced episodes, which again, can be found at gradx.mit.edu/podcasts. Thanks for listening and enjoy the conversation. Patrick Yurick: Do you want to tell me your name and talk a little bit about the work you do here at MIT? Tony Eng: My name is Tony Eng, and I teach engineers how to communicate here. I graduated with a degree in computer science, and when I finished, I was asked to think about creating a communication class. I thought, well that is not really my background, but I was told, “ Well, you take a semester to think about it and then come back and let us know.” So, I went around the institute and did my due diligence. I tried to figure out what was being done here at MIT. I spoke to alumni who were out in the industry and I said, “What could be done here?” I talked to recruits and so forth, and everyone said, “We need you to teach the students to communicate better.” I proposed a class that was, in the beginning, both written and oral communication, but now it focuses entirely on oral communication. It became a requirement, and so here I am. I am still running this course for undergraduates in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. P: Great.

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