Research

Rosalyn Berne

Intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth. Link between human and non-human worlds. Ethics in engineering practice, biotechnology and nanotechnology, ethics in engineering education.  

Research Interest: Science, technology, and society; engineering ethics; animal welfare. 

William Davis

How should we engage with technologies, other creatures, and our environments? Investigating the impacts of emerging technologies on various communities. Currently investigates topics in the ethical and social implications of technology, including those related to artificial intelligence, automation, bioethics, machine ethics, post and trans-humanism, as well as social epistemology. 

Joshua Earle

The history of eugenics, genetic and regenerative medicine. How technologists and the public imagine our future. Transhumanism and similar movements. RI: philosophy of technology, disability studies, history of biology and medicine, media studies.

James F. Groves

Engineering ethics (people and the planet climate change impacts on the mid-Atlantic); Sustainability (energy materials, e-micromobility); Design

Sergio Guillen Grillo

Public interest conflict analysis and resolution, transboundary water management, labor relations, participatory policy analysis, land-use management. Conservation, energy, and water management. Sustainability, engineering ethics. Natural resource governance, environmental security, international negotiations, public interest conflict management. 

Benjamin Laugelli

Social and ethical aspects of technology and engineering practice. Sustainable design values, technology and science fiction. LEGO. STS, Engineering ethics, engineering education, sustainable design values, Frankenstein and science fiction, LEGO and corporate social responsibility

Garrick Louis

Social equity in engineering, with an emphasis on access to infrastructure services by socially marginalized communities. Sustainability and human needs; social equity in engineering; social equity in engineering education; capacity factor analysis.

Jesse Pappas

Engineering ethics, STS, character strength 

Kent Wayland

STS, information technology, engineering ethics

Caitlin Wylie

STS, engineering ethics, engineering education, interdisciplinary collaboration, data ethics, scientific practice

Hughes Award nominees and winners

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Coleen Carrigan

Advances knowledge on the allocation of resources, opportunities and respect in U.S. engineering and computer science. Justice in science and technology and to holding these institutions accountable to commonweal values and democratic oversight. Gender, race and social values in computing. Investigates technoscientific culture and cultivates care, communal resistance, and mutual support in the worlds under study to transform not only who gets to produce scientific knowledge but also to reimagine other ways  of knowing. 

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; STS; feminism; ethnography; medical anthropology; engineering anthropology; engineering education; broadening participation; critical methodologies. 

William Davis

How should we engage with technologies, other creatures, and our environments? Investigating the impacts of emerging technologies on various communities. Currently investigates topics in the ethical and social implications of technology, including those related to artificial intelligence, automation, bioethics, machine ethics, post and trans-humanism, as well as social epistemology. 

Joshua Earle

The history of eugenics, genetic and regenerative medicine. How technologists and the public imagine our future. Transhumanism and similar movements. RI: philosophy of technology, disability studies, history of biology and medicine, media studies. 

Rider Foley

Wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Sustainability. Science, technology, and society. 

MC Forelle

Intersection of law, technology, and culture with a particular interest in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change. Software-enhanced automotive technology and its impact upon repair, maintenance, and modification. Science, Technology, and Society; Ethics and Information Technology; Material Cultures; Autonomous and Smart Consumer Technologies

Pedro Augusto Pereira Francisco

Research seeks to understand the role of technologies as enablers of social relationships. How these systems (drones, surveillance technologies, AI in public security, cybersecurity ecosystems and content digitization processes) shape networks of actors comprised of people, things, and institutions. Anthropology; Science, technology, and society;

Benjamin Laugelli 

Social and ethical aspects of technology and engineering practice. Sustainable design values, technology and science fiction. LEGO. STS, Engineering ethics, engineering education, sustainable design values, Frankenstein and science fiction, LEGO and corporate social responsibility

Kathryn Neeley 

Engineering communication, the integration of technical expertise and breadth of knowledge in engineering practice. 

Peter Norton

History of technology, social dimensions of engineering, transportation history and policy, traffic safety, autonomous vehicles, sustainability and equitable urban mobility.

Karina Ripley

Information technology; STS; STEM workforce

Bryn Seabrook

Bioethics, public participation in environmental policymaking, energy efficiency, climate change, negotiating the environmental - consumer nexus, and analyzing American consumer culture.

Kent Wayland

STS, information technology, engineering ethics

Caitlin Wylie

STS, engineering ethics, engineering education, interdisciplinary collaboration, data ethics, scientific practice

Rosalyn Berne

Intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth. Link between human and non-human worlds. Ethics in engineering practice, biotechnology and nanotechnology, ethics in engineering education.

William Davis

How should we engage with technologies, other creatures, and our environments? Investigating the impacts of emerging technologies on various communities. Currently investigates topics in the ethical and social implications of technology, including those related to artificial intelligence, automation, bioethics, machine ethics, post and trans-humanism, as well as social epistemology. 

Joshua Earle

The history of eugenics, genetic and regenerative medicine. How technologists and the public imagine our future. Transhumanism and similar movements. RI: philosophy of technology, disability studies, history of biology and medicine, media studies.

Bryn Seabrook

Bioethics, public participation in environmental policymaking, energy efficiency, climate change, negotiating the environmental - consumer nexus, and analyzing American consumer culture.

Coleen Carrigan

Advances knowledge on the allocation of resources, opportunities and respect in U.S. engineering and computer science. Justice in science and technology and to holding these institutions accountable to commonweal values and democratic oversight. Gender, race and social values in computing. Investigates technoscientific culture and cultivates care, communal resistance, and mutual support in the worlds under study to transform not only who gets to produce scientific knowledge but also to reimagine other ways  of knowing. 

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; STS; feminism; ethnography; medical anthropology; engineering anthropology; engineering education; broadening participation; critical methodologies. 

William Davis

How should we engage with technologies, other creatures, and our environments? Investigating the impacts of emerging technologies on various communities. Currently investigates topics in the ethical and social implications of technology, including those related to artificial intelligence, automation, bioethics, machine ethics, post and trans-humanism, as well as social epistemology. 

MC Forelle

Intersection of law, technology, and culture with a particular interest in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change. Software-enhanced automotive technology and its impact upon repair, maintenance, and modification. Science, Technology, and Society; Ethics and Information Technology; Material Cultures; Autonomous and Smart Consumer Technologies

James Groves

Engineering ethics (people and the planet climate change impacts on the mid-Atlantic); Sustainability (energy materials, e-micromobility); Design 

Sergio Guillen Grillo

Public interest conflict analysis and resolution, transboundary water management, labor relations, participatory policy analysis, land-use management. Conservation, energy, and water management. Sustainability, engineering ethics. Natural resource governance, environmental security, international negotiations, public interest conflict management. 

Leidy Klotz

Overlap of engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable systems; Sustainable engineering; behavioral science; design

Benjamin Laugelli 

Social and ethical aspects of technology and engineering practice. Sustainable design values, technology and science fiction. LEGO. STS, Engineering ethics, engineering education, sustainable design values, Frankenstein and science fiction, LEGO and corporate social responsibility.

Garrick Louis

Social equity in engineering, with an emphasis on access to infrastructure services by socially marginalized communities. Sustainability and human needs; social equity in engineering; social equity in engineering education; capacity factor analysis.

Kathryn Neeley 

Engineering communication, the integration of technical expertise and breadth of knowledge in engineering practice.

Bryn Seabrook

Bioethics, public participation in environmental policymaking, energy efficiency, climate change, negotiating the environmental - consumer nexus, and analyzing American consumer culture.

Caitlin Wylie

STS, engineering ethics, engineering education, interdisciplinary collaboration, data ethics, scientific practice

Rider Foley

Wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Sustainability. Science, technology, and society.

Sergio Guillen Grillo 

Public interest conflict analysis and resolution, transboundary water management, labor relations, participatory policy analysis, land-use management. Conservation, energy, and water management. Sustainability, engineering ethics. Natural resource governance, environmental security, international negotiations, public interest conflict management. 

Garrick Louis

Social equity in engineering, with an emphasis on access to infrastructure services by socially marginalized communities. Sustainability and human needs; social equity in engineering; social equity in engineering education; capacity factor analysis

Kathryn Neeley 

Engineering communication, the integration of technical expertise and breadth of knowledge in engineering practice.

Peter Norton

History of technology, social dimensions of engineering, transportation history and policy, traffic safety, autonomous vehicles, sustainability and equitable urban mobility.

Bryn Seabrook

Bioethics, public participation in environmental policymaking, energy efficiency, climate change, negotiating the environmental - consumer nexus, and analyzing American consumer culture.

Joshua Earle 

The history of eugenics, genetic and regenerative medicine. How technologists and the public imagine our future. Transhumanism and similar movements. RI: philosophy of technology, disability studies, history of biology and medicine, media studies.

Benjamin Laugelli

Social and ethical aspects of technology and engineering practice. Sustainable design values, technology and science fiction. LEGO. STS, Engineering ethics, engineering education, sustainable design values, Frankenstein and science fiction, LEGO and corporate social responsibility.

MC Forelle

Intersection of law, technology, and culture with a particular interest in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change. Software-enhanced automotive technology and its impact upon repair, maintenance, and modification. Science, Technology, and Society; Ethics and Information Technology; Material Cultures; Autonomous and Smart Consumer Technologies 

Karina Rider

Information technology; STS; STEM workforce

Kent Wayland

STS, information technology, engineering ethics

Coleen Carrigan

Advances knowledge on the allocation of resources, opportunities and respect in U.S. engineering and computer science. Justice in science and technology and to holding these institutions accountable to commonweal values and democratic oversight. Gender, race and social values in computing. Investigates technoscientific culture and cultivates care, communal resistance, and mutual support in the worlds under study to transform not only who gets to produce scientific knowledge but also to reimagine other ways  of knowing. 

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; STS; feminism; ethnography; medical anthropology; engineering anthropology; engineering education; broadening participation; critical methodologies. 

Sergio Guillen Grillo

Public interest conflict analysis and resolution, transboundary water management, labor relations, participatory policy analysis, land-use management. Conservation, energy, and water management. Sustainability, engineering ethics. Natural resource governance, environmental security, international negotiations, public interest conflict management. 

Kathryn Neeley 

Engineering communication, the integration of technical expertise and breadth of knowledge in engineering practice.

Jesse Pappas

Engineering ethics, STS, character strength 

Kent Wayland

STS, information technology, engineering ethics

Caitlin Wylie

STS, engineering ethics, engineering education, interdisciplinary collaboration, data ethics, scientific practice

Leidy Klotz

Overlap of engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable systems; Sustainable engineering; behavioral science; design

Jesse Pappas

Engineering ethics, STS, character strength 

Coleen Carrigan

Advances knowledge on the allocation of resources, opportunities and respect in U.S. engineering and computer science. Justice in science and technology and to holding these institutions accountable to commonweal values and democratic oversight. Gender, race and social values in computing. Investigates technoscientific culture and cultivates care, communal resistance, and mutual support in the worlds under study to transform not only who gets to produce scientific knowledge but also to reimagine other ways  of knowing. 

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; STS; feminism; ethnography; medical anthropology; engineering anthropology; engineering education; broadening participation; critical methodologies. 

James F. Groves

Engineering ethics (people and the planet climate change impacts on the mid-Atlantic); Sustainability (energy materials, e-micro mobility); Design

Karina Rider

Information technology; STS; STEM workforce

Rider Foley

Wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Sustainability. Science, technology, and society. 

MC Forelle

Intersection of law, technology, and culture with a particular interest in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change. Software-enhanced automotive technology and its impact upon repair, maintenance, and modification. Science, Technology, and Society; Ethics and Information Technology; Material Cultures; Autonomous and Smart Consumer Technologies

James Groves

Engineering ethics (people and the planet climate change impacts on the mid-Atlantic); Sustainability (energy materials, e-micromobility); Design 

Sergio Guillen Grillo 

Public interest conflict analysis and resolution, transboundary water management, labor relations, participatory policy analysis, land-use management. Conservation, energy, and water management. Sustainability, engineering ethics. Natural resource governance, environmental security, international negotiations, public interest conflict management.

Leidy Klotz

Overlap of engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable systems; Sustainable engineering; behavioral science; design 

Benjamin Laugelli

Social and ethical aspects of technology and engineering practice. Sustainable design values, technology and science fiction. LEGO. STS, Engineering ethics, engineering education, sustainable design values, Frankenstein and science fiction, LEGO and corporate social responsibility.

Garrick Louis 

Social equity in engineering, with an emphasis on access to infrastructure services by socially marginalized communities. Sustainability and human needs; social equity in engineering; social equity in engineering education; capacity factor analysis

Peter Norton

History of technology, social dimensions of engineering, transportation history and policy, traffic safety, autonomous vehicles, sustainability and equitable urban mobility.

Bryn Seabrook

Bioethics, public participation in environmental policymaking, energy efficiency, climate change, negotiating the environmental - consumer nexus, and analyzing American consumer culture

MC Forelle 

Intersection of law, technology, and culture with a particular interest in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change. Software-enhanced automotive technology and its impact upon repair, maintenance, and modification. Science, Technology, and Society; Ethics and Information Technology; Material Cultures; Autonomous and Smart Consumer Technologies  

James F. Groves

Engineering ethics (people and the planet climate change impacts on the mid-Atlantic); Sustainability (energy materials, e-micromobility); Design

Peter Norton

History of technology, social dimensions of engineering, transportation history and policy, traffic safety, autonomous vehicles, sustainability and equitable urban mobility.

Kent Wayland

STS, information technology, engineering ethics