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Hanson Center tutoring will resume again in the Fall. Have a great summer!"

Michelle Scherer (she/her)
Director Hanson Center for Communication
University of Iowa Distinguished Chair and Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering 
email: michelle-scherer@uiowa.edu.
ph. 319.335.5654

Upcoming Events @HCC

 A Play on PCBs

May 4th, 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM 

4650 Seamans Center

A play on PCBs

The Hanson Center for Communication (HCC) is an endowed program that works closely with engineering faculty to train students in verbal and written communication throughout the curriculum. The center helps create, manage, and grade writing and presentation assignments, as well as provide training to students, tutors, and faculty on best practices for communication. In addition, the Hanson Center for Communication is home to an innovative peer-training center that conducts hundreds of one-on-one and team tutoring sessions each year. The center helps review lab reports, topical papers, technical essays, and technical presentations each semester. Peer tutors are undergraduate students who have shown exceptional promise as communicators and provide individualized feedback throughout the writing and presentation process. In addressing global concerns (organization, clarity, and context), peer tutors help their fellow students transform rough drafts into persuasive, logical documents and presentations.