Taft Broome

Taft took the B.S. in civil engineering from Howard University in 1966, and the M.S. and Sc.D. in structural mechanics from the George Washington University in 1968 and 1972, respectively. In 1985 he took the master's in engineering ethics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Taft publishes regularly in the engineering dynamics and engineering ethics literatures, and has served in positions of national leadership in twelve scholarly societies, including the AAAS, Sigma Xi, AAUP, and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a Fellow of the Rensselaer Alumni Association, a member of the editorial board of Science & Engineering Ethics, and Professor of Civil Engineering at Howard University.