Company Founded by UVA Engineering Alumni Makes Pitch for Investment Group’s $250K Prize
AgroSpheres, a company founded by UVA Engineering graduates Payam Pourtaheri (nanomedicine engineering, 2016) and Ameer Shakeel (...
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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Our Faculty
Ann Reimers
Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Society
Manouchehr (Mike) Mohajeri
Lecturer of Applied Mathematics
Deborah G. Johnson
Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Research Areas
- Ethics and Information Technology
- Engineering Ethics
- Ethics, AI, and Robots
Monika Abramenko
Lecturer, Department of Engineering & Society
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.