Gail Oliver Palmer is a native Virginian who earned the B.A. degree from Mary Baldwin College in 1967 and the M.Ed. degree from the University of South Carolina in 1989.

Since 1996, Ms. Palmer has taught Professional Communication Skills in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Previously, she taught English, journalism, AP grammar, American literature, history, and political science in secondary schools in North Carolina, South Carolina (where she lived for twenty years), and Bermuda. Ms. Palmer has written for three metropolitan newspapers in Virginia and Georgia and has also worked as a Production Editor in the College Textbook Division of Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Inc.

Ms. Palmer is an avid bridge player, a history buff, and an enthusiastic ACC basketball fan.

Research Interests

Distinctions

English as a Second Language (ESL) Professional Communication Skills in Graduate Engineering Education Technical and Scientific Writing Delivery Dynamics of Oral Presentations

ECE representative to the Georgia Institute of Technology Assembly of the General Faculty Member of Georgia Institute of Technology Welfare and Security Committee of the General Faculty Member of Georgia Institute of Technology Sexual Violence Task Force Member, IEEE Member, IEEE Professional Communication Society Member, IEEE Engineering Education Society Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Member, Techmasters (Toastmasters International)

Selected Publications

G. Palmer, "Writing a Power Electronics Technical Document." 36th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESCO'05), June 12-18, 2004, Recife, Brazil. G. Palmer, "Writing an IEEE PELS Technical Paper." 35th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESCO'04), June 20-25, 2004, Aachen, Germany. G. Palmer and D. Slavin, "Graduate Engineering Professional Development." September 2003. IEEE Professional Communication Society annual conference, Orlando, Florida. G. Palmer, "Integrating Professional Communication Skills into Graduate Engineering Education," Russian Scientific and Technical A.S. Popov Society and IEEE Professional Communication Society, Aug. 2001, Suzdal, Russia. G. Palmer, "Dreams of the Heart," IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter, Nov. /Dec., pp. 25-27, 2001. G. Palmer, "The Five C's of Excellent Technical Communication," June 2000. Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. G. Palmer. "100 Years of Illumination." Video, 1997. Centennial Celebration, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.