UVA’s Vaughan Professor of Humanities to Teach at National University of Ireland Galway
Engineering and Society department chair W. Bernard Carlson will join the National University of Ireland Galway as a visiting lecturer...
Engineering and Society: Equipping future engineers to apply judgment as well as analysis to global challenges
For UVA Engineering graduates to confront the difficult challenges of the 21st century, they must possess both high-level analytic skills and the ability to apply those skills ethically in ways that reflect the cultural, economic and political context. The Department of Engineering and Society is where UVA Engineering students learn to integrate analysis and judgment so they can create innovative solutions that are effective and sustainable because they are appropriate.
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Science, Technology and Society Professor Rosalyn Berne Publishes Perspective in NAE’s The Bridge Arguing Humility Helps Lead to Ethics in Resilience Engineering
Science, technology and society professor Rosalyn Berne, who is serving as director of the NAE’s Center for Engineering Ethics and...
A Colleague Remembers what Made Richard Jennings a Great Teacher and Engineer
In his latest column for Forbes, W. Bernard Carlson, Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of...
Pike Fellows Program Alumni Land Substantial Funding for Startup
PurPics, a startup founded by one of the teams that participated in the 2018-2019 Pike Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program,...
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Our Faculty
Stacie Pisano
Senior Lecturer of Applied Mathematics
Catherine D. Baritaud
Senior Lecturer of Science, Technology, and Society
Research Areas
- Science, Technology and Society
Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Research Areas
- Sociology of science/science policy
- Science, Technology and Culture in US and China
- Global innovation
Elizabeth P. Pyle, CPG, MBA
Associate Director for Technology Entrepreneurship, Director, UVA I-Corps Program
Research Areas
- Entrepreneurship
- Buiilding entrepreneurial communities of practice
- Startups
More About Our Department
Works in Progress
The Engineering & Society Department leads a culture of entrepreneurship at UVA Engineering. We support the Works in Progress community of student entrepreneurial projects. Watch the Works in Progress video.
Entrepreneurship
True engineering success comes from moving ideas and knowledge out of the laboratories and into the marketplace. This video explains our philosophy of entrepreneurship in engineering.