Michael Alley

Holding a master of science in electrical engineering from Texas Tech and a master of fine arts in writing from the University of Alabama, Michael Alley is a teaching professor of engineering communication at Penn State. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing, 4th ed. (2018), and The Craft of Scientific Presentations, 2nd ed. (2013). Over the past twenty years, he has taught writing and presenting to scientists and engineers across the United States and in Europe, Asia, and South America. 

Sites include Penn State, MIT, Virginia Tech, the University of Texas, the University of Illinois, Harvard Medical School, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore Lab, United Technologies, Areva Nuclear Power, the Army Corps of Engineers, Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), the Institute for Energy Technology (Norway), the European Space Organization (Chile), Panjab University (India), the University of Sao Paulo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Seoul National University, the University of Osaka, the University of Oslo, the University of Barcelona, and the University of Seville. 

Alley’s website on writing is a top Google listing for the topic of “engineering writing” and his website on speaking is a top Google listing for “presentation slides.” When not writing or teaching, he can be found hiking through the forests of Pennsylvania with his wife and dogs.