‘Fighting Traffic’ Author Says Changing Car Culture Isn’t a Foreign Idea in America
Engineering and Society professor Peter D. Norton argues that embracing bike- and pedestrian-friendly streets could be an American...
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.
Latest News
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...
Regulatory Restraint Gives Innovators Room and Incentive to Improve New Technologies
W. Bernard Carlson, a historian of technology and chair of the Department of Engineering and Society, argues for adaptive regulation...
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...
Our Faculty
Benjamin Joseph Laugelli
Assistant Professor in Science, Technology, and Society
Research Areas
- Science, Technology and Society
Bernard Ives Fulgham
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
James F. Groves, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Society
Megan Ryals
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
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.