First Class of Pike Fellows Prepare to Compete for $50,000 Prize
With a seven-decade family legacy of entrepreneurship, J. Eric Pike and Will Pike, a 2016 alumnus, established the Pike Engineering...
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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Shortening the Toxic Clock
The student-led start-up Agrospheres has created a new biologic treatment that safely degrades harmful pesticides from crops in a...
How do you give student entrepreneurs a fighting chance at success?
After Will Pike’s graduation in 2016 from UVA's electrical engineering program, the Pike family saw an opportunity to help...
New Program Provides Critical Connection Point for Student Entrepreneurs
A new program housed at UVA Engineering helps students think about how their work might live on after graduation.
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Our Faculty
Julie Spencer
Ph.D., Mathematics
Monika Abramenko
Lecturer, Department of Engineering & Society
Bernard Ives Fulgham
Lecturer of Applied Mathematics
Toluwalogo (Tolu) B. Odumosu
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology & Society, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
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.