About HCC

The Hanson Center for Communication (HCC) is an endowed program generously created by Tom and Nancy Hanson to provide a comprehensive resource to help students develop communication skills as part of their engineering education. The HCC is an innovative communication training center that works closely with engineering faculty to train students in effective technical communication. HCC conducts hundreds of one-on-one and group tutoring sessions to help students develop their writing and presentation skills and support faculty in including communication practice across the engineering curriculum. The center offers a wide-range of writing and presentation training including individual tutoring, improv training, and weekly groups that provide technical writing, presentation, and dissertation coaching. The center also partners closely with the Lichtenberger Engineering Library to host communication-focused events and competitions such as Engineering Reads, Capture Your Research Image Competition, and Graduate Thesis Boot Camp. For questions, please email HCC Director James Ankrum at james-ankrum@uiowa.edu.