The Department of Technology Leadership and Communication (TLC) faculty, staff, and students engage in a wide-array of research endeavors. These include discipline-specific research (in our subject areas of expertise), the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, applied and action research with real-life client organizations, and research involving students in our programs. The list below identifies the collective capabilities of the faculty and staff in TLC.
Collective Research Capabilities
- Developing a communication strategy
- Technical report writing
- Visual elements of communication
- Managing document quality
- Conducting usability testing and evaluation
- Writing documentation
- Proposal writing
- Career development
- Organization development
- Workforce and employee engagement
- Talent selection, rewards/recognition, and development
- Workplace learning and performance improvement/support
- Executive/professional coaching and mentoring
- Strategic planning
- Team development
- Quality and continuous improvement processes
- Project management
- Board development
- Applied organizational research (surveys, focus groups, benchmarking, interviews, etc.)
- Analysis of learning needs
- Design of instructional plans and systems
- Development of learning materials, resources, and strategies
- Implementation of learning, including face-to-face, hybrid, and online delivery
- Evaluation of learning effectiveness and results
- Advising, career preparation, and related supports for learners
- STEM educator development
- High-impact educational practices in STEM
- Integrated STEM learning
- Tutoring and mentoring in STEM K-12 and community settings
- Research and evaluation of STEM interventions
- STEM workforce development
