Forging Tomorrow’s Leaders Through UVA’s Policy Internship Program
Every summer, the UVA/MIT Policy Internship Program places 10 UVA Engineering students in agencies and organizations in Washington, D...
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 Technology Historian Marks Tesla’s Birthday With Story of his Greatest Unknown Invention
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Expert: Without Cooperation, a Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Easy to Hide
UVA mechanical engineer, professor and nuclear weapons expert Houston Wood weighs in on North Korea and Iran.
Major Wins Propel UVA Engineering Entrepreneurship Team to Future Business Success
InMEDBio LLC, a student-led company developing a new type of wound care dressing, has impressed judges at important entrepreneurship...
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Our Faculty
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
James W. Lark, III
Lecturer, Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Lecturer, Applied Mathematics Program, Department of Engineering and Society, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Statistics
Research Areas
- Computational Statistics and Simulation/Statistical Modeling
- Risk and Decision Analysis
- Optimization Models and Methods
Monika Abramenko
Lecturer, Department of Engineering & Society
Rider W. Foley
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
- Wireless Health
- Smart Buildings/Cities
- Risk and Decision Analysis
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.