Carpenter, Mark

Biography:

Mark Carpenter has been involved in engineering communication since 1969, when he became a Science Writer for NASA’s Apollo and Skylab Programs at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Later, he served as Proposal Coordinator for Brown and Root, Inc. and then joined El Paso Marine, the builder and operator of a fleet of ocean-going LNG carriers. In the early 1980s, he helped Raytheon document the installation of an innovative offshore jacket design for Exxon in a 4-year project. For several years he operated his own writing-services business in Houston before joining Intergraph, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama, where he helped design and write users’ documentation for a geographic information system. During his years in Huntsville, he received his Master’s Degree in English Literature, with a concentration in TESOL. In 2003 he received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a lecturer in EE 333T Engineering Communication for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.