Derbesy, Philip | Faculty
Ph.D., Lecturer III in Technical Communication, College of Engineering
312 Gorguze Family Laboratory
About Philip
Philip Derbesy is a Lecturer III in the Program in Technical Communication. He teaches the communication component of Engineering 100, including sections on autonomous vehicles, socially-engaged design, and music signal processing. He also teaches advanced technical communication courses for students in mechanical engineering, computer science, and robotics. In all these classes, he teaches how metacognition—or analyzing one’s own thinking—can help students to meet the challenge of communicating in new situations.
Before coming to the University of Michigan, Dr. Derbesy completed a Ph.D. in English at Case Western Reserve University. His dissertation examines how technology, specifically the advent of film, impacted the development of American literature in the twentieth century.
Education
Ph.D., English, Case Western Reserve University
B.A., English, Northwest Nazarene University