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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…

UVA Department of Biomedical Engineering Presents

Speaker: Dr. Justin Hess, Assistant Professor, Purdue University

This talk will focus on ways of framing empathy, ethics, diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering education. The talk will be highly interactive and will prompt participants to consider how they collectively define these terms. The…

Thanks to the Justice 40 initiative, the language of just transitions is now fundamental to U.S. energy policy. Energy institutions and researchers are only beginning, however, to grapple with the complex challenge of defining and implementing just transitions in theory and in practice. This talk will review the complex dynamics of energy transitions and the diverse…

Especially over the last 20 years, engineers have become far more attuned to the environmental impacts of their work. While engineers have a first order responsibility to follow environmental regulations, and to try to minimize raw material and energy consumption and limit pollution in their work as individuals, environmental issues have also become an important second…

When we experience the harms engendered by technoscientific corporations, it is common practice to attribute blame to both the corporation as a whole as well as to the particular individuals in its employ. The same can be said for our praise of acts of responsibility. For example, we may commend “Facebook” for using renewable energy to power its data centers or…

Gun violence continues to be a serious public health problem in the United States. Recent research indicates that firearm violence is exacerbated by social media usage and the formation of the “digital street.” Violence prevention and intervention strategies, however, typically exclude social media as a risk factor, and there are few tools available to violence…

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine invites you to attend The Daniel W. Foster M.D. Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics (in conjunction with Ethics Grand Rounds). 

RACE AND ETHICS IN THE DESIGN OF BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES: THE PULSE OXIMETER AS A CASE IN POINT

Speaker: Dr.…