Faculty

The Engineering and Society faculty shown below include professors, associate professors, and assistant professors with primary and joint appointments. To view additional faculty (courtesy, emeritus and visiting), select the "Find Faculty by Appointment" tab to filter results.
  • Robert J. Archer

    Executive Lecturer
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    Rob is from Philadelphia but has been a part of the UVA community since 1980 where he was introduced to Charlottesville as an undergraduate track and field athlete and mechanical engineering student. Rob completed his graduate studies in 1994 at the Darden Graduate School of Business…
  • Mary Beck

    Lecturer, Applied Mathematics
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    Mary Beck began teaching in the Department of Applied Mathematics in 1989 and retired in 2014. During her time in the School of Engineering and Applied Science she served as the Director of Applied Mathematics, the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, and the faculty advisor for the…
  • Rosalyn W. Berne

    Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics Department Chair
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    Rosalyn W. Berne, PhD is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Director of the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (OEC) in the Department of Engineering and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she has been a faculty member since 1999.

  • John K. (Jack) Brown

    Professor Emeritus

    Brown taught history, applied ethics, writing, and public speaking in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society till 2015. His research centers on American technological and business history. He has won awards from the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, the Society for Industrial Archaeology, and Society for the History of Tech.

  • W. Bernard Carlson

    Joseph L. Vaughan Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Society, Program Manager, AgInnovation, University of Galway, Ireland
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    Bernie Carlson is a historian of technology who studies the careers of inventors and entrepreneurs in order to educate future engineering leaders. He grew up in New Jersey, studied history and physics as an undergraduate, earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science, and…
  • Coleen Carrigan

    Associate Professor
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    Dr. Coleen Carrigan is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on broadening participation, combating inequities, and enhancing public engagement in science, technology…
  • James Cheng

    Executive Lecturer
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    Jim Cheng has over 25 years experience as a technology entrepreneur, angel/private capital investor, business leader and a senior state government executive. As such, he has invested in over 40 startups of various industries, some of which have had successful exits! Previously, Jim served as the Secretary of Commerce and Trade for Virginia.

  • Jason Clark

    Associate Professor
  • Patricia Click

    Associate Professor Emeritus
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    Fresh out of graduate school with a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Virginia, Patricia Click joined the department when it was known as the Humanities Division. At that time, the department was evolving to include more courses that focused on the history of technology…
  • William Davis

    Assistant Professor
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    As our technological creations increasingly permeate all that surrounds us, altering our behaviors and bodies in subtle and obvious ways, we ought to ask ourselves: