Faculty Profile - Gail Palmer

Lecturer; Graduate Professional Communications Program

Phone: 404.894.0630
Fax: 404.894.4641
Office: Klaus 2308

Personal Biography
Graduate Professional Communications Program

Biography

Gail Oliver Palmer is a native Virginian who earned the B.A. degree from Mary Baldwin College in 1967 and the M.Ed. degree from the University of South Carolina in 1989.

Since 1996, Ms. Palmer has taught Professional Communication Skills in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Previously, she taught English, journalism, AP grammar, Americanliterature, history, and political science in secondary schools in North Carolina, South Carolina (where she lived for twenty years), and Bermuda. Ms. Palmer has written for three metropolitan newspapers in Virginia and Georgia, and has also worked as a Production Editor in the College Textbook Division of Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Inc.

Ms. Palmer is an avid bridge player, a history buff, and an enthusiastic ACC basketball fan.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

English as a Second Language (ESL)
Professional Communication Skills in Graduate Engineering Education
Technical and Scientific Writing
Delivery Dynamics of Oral Presentations

Distinctions

ECE representative to the Georgia Institute of Technology Assembly of the General Faculty
Member of Georgia Institute of Technology Welfare and Security Committee of the General Faculty
Member of Georgia Institute of Technology Sexual Violence Task Force
Member, IEEE
Member, IEEE Professional Communication Society
Member, IEEE Engineering Education Society
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member, Techmasters (Toastmasters International)

Last revised on June 06, 2008.