This book serves as a valuable aid in helping scientists and engineers seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition. It can be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on technical communication and ethics, a reference book for senior design courses, or a handbook for young investigators and beginning faculty members.In addition to presenting methods for writing clearly and concisely and improving oral presentations, this compact book provides practical guidelines for preparing theses, dissertations, journal papers for publication, and proposals for research funding. Issues of authorship, peer review, plagiarism, recordkeeping, and copyright are addressed in detail, and case studies of research misconduct are presented to highlight the need for proactive attention to scientific integrity. Ample exercises cause the reader to stop and think. The authors motivate the reader to develop an effective, individual style of communication and a personal commitment to integrity, each of which are essential to success in the workplace.

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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.