GREW
A New Graduate Research Writing Center
GREW Serves graduate engineering students in their research writing through a writing course, drop-in hours, regular workshops, guest lectures, and helpful materials.
The new GREW (Graduate Research Engineering Writing) Center provides writing services for graduate students, as well as post-docs, undergraduates working in research, and their advisors for the College of Engineering. The GREW center is run by Dr. Amanda Funai.
Amanda Funai
CLEAR Program Associate Instructor
- Phone: 801-581-8715
- Email: amanda.funai@utah.edu
- Office: WEB 1602
Amanda teaches technical communication for graduate students throughout the college of Engineering. She previously taught engineering courses in engineering computation as well as advising biomedical capstone students at East Carolina University. Amanda holds a PhD From the University of Michigan in Electrical Engineering: Systems with a focus on biomedical statistical signal processing. She was funded as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. Her dissertation was on the regularized estimation of magnetic fields in MRI. She was a National Merit Scholar and Presidential Scholar as an undergraduate at Northeastern University where she graduated as valedictorian. She has also previously worked in VLSI and circuit design. Her interests lie in technical writing, engineering education, STEM in K12, and retention and outreach for women in engineering.