Faculty
James L. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., is Professor and Director of the Technical Japanese Program in the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked as an engineer in industry and has conducted research as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. In addition, he has 20 years of experience as a translator of Japanese technical documents and is certified by the American Translators Association in Japanese-to-English. His publications include Basic Technical Japanese Supplements: Biotechnology (1995) and Intermediate Technical Japanese (2002).
Professor Davis has been honored as an Outstanding Instructor by the National Technological University for nine consecutive years (1993-2001). He also received an Outstanding Instructor Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Polygon Engineering Council (1998).