![photo of Julia Williams](/-/media/asce-images-and-files/publications-and-news/source/images/2023/05-may/what-skills-do-civil-engineers-need-to-enter-the-profession-and-contribute-immediately/julia-williams-web-vert.jpeg)
Julia Williams has never done anything exactly as you might expect.
So when she got her Ph.D. in English, she took a professor job at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has spent the past decades teaching writing and communication skills to STEM majors.
And now she’s written a book about her experiences innovating and shaking things up in academia. It’s called “Making Changes in STEM Education: The Change Makers Toolkit.”
In episode 149 of ASCE Plot Points, Williams talks about her new book and why teaching communication skills to STEM majors is so important.