Christian Casper

Teaching Professor, Program in Technical Communication @University Of Michigan College Of Engineering

Ann Arbor, MI, US

Lecturer to August 2014, Lecturer IV from September 2014, Teaching Professor from September 2023• Develop and teach technical-communication components for first-year and upper-level laboratory and design-workshop courses in aerospace, biomedical, and chemical engineering and materials science and engineering.• Develop and teach standalone technical-communication courses for senior undergraduate students in electrical and computer engineering and computer science.• Perform administrative service for the Program in Technical Communication and the College of Engineering. Assignments have included the Program’s executive and curriculum committees, chairing the Program\'s internal review committee, chairing the selection committee for one of the College’s writing awards, acting as the Program’s curriculum co-coordinator with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, serving as one of the “cognizant faculty” for the Department of Chemical Engineering’s senior laboratory course, and serving on selection committees for the College\'s Leaders and Honors awards.I gave an interview about my teaching to Undercooled: A Materials Education Podcast in the summer of 2025:https://undercooled.transistor.fm/s3/2

North Carolina State University

Ph.D., Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)

University of Michigan

M.S., Chemistry. Concentration: Inorganic Chemistry

Eastern Michigan University

M.A., English Language and Literature. Concentration: Written Communication

Iowa State University

B.S., Liberal Arts and Sciences. Major: Chemistry; Minor: Biology

The University of Alabama

Visiting scholar, Department of Chemistry