Come by at 1pm on Tuesday and you can also meet co-author Dean Allemang.

Carol Barnum: The year was 1978. I took my freshly minted Ph.D. in English (my dissertation was on the fiction of John Fowles) and I tried to find a job as a professor, but there was a recession in place (sound familiar?) and there were no academic positions for a newly-minted English professor. After a year of teaching part-time at two universities in Atlanta and searching nationally for work and doing freelance copywriting, I landed a job at Southern Polytechnic State University (called Southern Tech back then and a part of Georgia Tech). I was hired because of my business writing experience, as they were looking for someone to teach business communication, along with the usual composition and literature courses. Oh, and technical writing. Sure, I said, when they asked me if I could teach tech writing, wondering to myself whatever the heck that was.

Mike Kuniavsky: There are two things: One which is biographical and one which is kind of personal in a different way.

The biographical interest is that when I was a kid my dad was an engineer at Ford motor company, during the period when they were transitioning from primarily mechanical to primarily electronic control of their internal combustion engines. And he, as a person who had been trained in traditional mechanical engineering, had all this trouble with the technology.