• Cybersecurity Boot Camp Could Benefit Local Election Officials

    WVTF Public Radio reported on the 2023 Virginia Cyber Navigator Boot Camp, part of a multi-university program for future cybersecurity professionals to protect election infrastructure.

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    Engineering professors talk tech and ethics in C-ville Weekly feature on local businesses using AI.

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  • Thoughts From the Lawn: Teaming Up to Understand the Brain

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    Garrick Louis, associate professor in the departments of Engineering Systems and Environment and Engineering & Society, received a President and Provost’s Fund for Institutionally Related Research award.

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    Andrew Li, a UVA third-year computer science and economics major, co-authored a paper diving into a global debate.

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  • Kent Wayland

    Assistant Professor
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    Dr. Kent Wayland is an Assistant Professor in the science, technology & society program in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses on science, technology, & society, writing, professional ethics, and cross-cultural engineering. He is…

    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…

    Sergio Guillen Grillo, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor, Engineering & Society
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    Sergio Guillén is a scholar and practitioner in public policy, conflict resolution, engineering ethics, and democratic deliberation. He is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Society. He also Co-directs the Online Ethics Center (OEC) and Directs the J-Term Costa Rica Study Abroad Program "Social Issues in Renewable Energy Governance." 

  • Rider W. Foley

    Associate Professor Director, Policy Internship Program
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    Dr. Rider W. Foley is an associate professor in the science, technology & society program in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ‘4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education.

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    Doc Jacques was initially on the faculty of the School of Engineering & Applied Science from 1998 – 2001; prior to retiring from the Federal government he returned to a teaching position in the School of Engineering on August 15, 2019. He officially retired from the US Department of…