Events

The 32nd Annual APPE International Conference will be held March 2-5, 2023 at the Portland (Oregon) Marriott Downtown Waterfront. The conference welcomes members of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), as well as non-members from various disciplines and professions. This year’s conference features a number of pre-conference opportunities for…

Leadership and Research Climate & Culture (title TBA) ~ C.K. Gunsalus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

What would it take to actually value environmental protection, social justice, peace, and human rights in engineering? How do we move from idealistic visions to concrete action? Can engineers make a living wage doing work that promotes these values? This session hopes to promote a discussion about these questions and more. 

Dr. Darshan Karwat is an Assistant…

The increasing impacts of climate change, urbanization, population growth and migration, along with the rapid adoption of technology in our day-to-day lives will continue to create conflict within and among communities; when systems lack the resiliency necessary to dampen this conflict, the outcome is often violence. Knowing that technological design has the ability to…

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Join the OEC for its final Fall webinar, a panel discussion on sustainability in industry. Panelists Perrin Falkner, Haley Hiller, Sarah Nerette, and Claire Trevisan lead sustainability initiatives in diverse industries, including transportation, building design, and energy. Please see their bios below. They will each share their experiences incorporating ethics in…

Arctic communities are experiencing dire impacts to infrastructure due to extreme environments, remote locations, and climate change. How should we best design, build, and monitor buildings so that they are durable, affordable, healthy, and sustainable for Northern communities?

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Ethical concerns have had a place in the engineering profession for over 100 years. Our profession’s approaches to ethics, however, have not prevented us from contributing to the unequal social and environmental outcomes that we see in the world today. In fact, engineers have had a key role in creating the physical and regulatory structures that lead to discriminatory…