Why Universities Like UVA Must Balance Business’ Yang With Yin of Engineering Discovery
UVA Engineering’s Vaughan Professor of Humanities Bernie Carlson makes a case for entrepreneurship as part of an engineer’s training...
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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UVA’s Tech Innovators Ignite Entrepreneurial Imaginations at SPARK Event
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‘Fighting Traffic’ Author Puts Clashes Over Electric Scooters in Historical Perspective
Engineering and Society historian Peter Norton tells Southern California Public Radio that city streets changed to accommodate cars...
Learning From Monsters: Engineering Students Study Frankenstein to Learn Responsible Design
In Technology and the Frankenstein Myth, engineering students are challenged to take responsibility for the full impact of their...
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Our Faculty
James F. Groves
Associate Professor
Rider W. Foley
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
- Wireless Health
- Smart Buildings/Cities
- Risk and Decision Analysis
Julie Spencer
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
Catherine D. Baritaud
Academic Lecturer, Director of Language for Engineering Education Programs (Project LEEP)
Research Areas
- Science, Technology and 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.