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IEEE SOCIETY ON SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY

Updated July 2008

PROGRAM COORDINATOR:
Joseph Herkert
Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology
Arizona State University School of Applied Arts and Sciences
7001 E. Williams Field Road
Bell Hall, Room M3
Mesa, AZ 85212
+1 480-727-1548 (O)
joseph.herkert@asu.edu (e-mail)
Topic: Engineering Ethics

PROGRAM IS OPEN TO:
Any IEEE entity

TO REQUEST A SPEAKER:
Contact Speaker.  If a Speaker is not available in the general
area of the subject, contact Program Coordinator.

SPEAKER EXPENSES:
SSIT may be able to provide supplemental funding upon request to support lecturers' travel expenses.  Please contact the Program Coordinator.


SPEAKER
Clinton J. Andrews
E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University
33 Livingston Ave #302, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
+1 732 932 3822 x721 (O)
+1 732 932 2253 (Fax)
c.j.andrews@ieee.org (e-mail)
Topic 1: Energy Security
Topic 2: Public Roles for Technical Experts
Topic 3: Whose Innovations are helping? The disciplines address global warming


Gerry Coates
Wise Analysis Limited
P O Box 10-186
Wellington 6036
+64-4-472 7621
+64-4-472 2022 (Fax)
+64-21-355 099 (Mobile)
gerry@wise-analysis.co.nz (e-mail)
Topic 1: Engineers and Peak Oil - Getting By With Less
Topic 2: Sustainability Principles and Practices for Engineers
Topic 3: Raising the Profile of Engineers
Topic 4: Developing a Values-based Code of Engineering Ethics
Topic 5: Encouraging Engineers to be More Socially Responsible
Topic 6: Coping With Change - Ethical Challenges
Topic 7: Alternative Energy Sources (Fuels)
Topic 8: The Needs of the World

 

Kenneth R. Foster
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
220 S. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6392 USA
+1 215 898 8534 (O)
+1 215 573 2071 (Fax)
kfoster@seas.upenn.edu (e-mail)
Topic 1: What Makes Medical Technology Work
Topic 2: Health Effects of Mobile Phones
Topic 3: The Precautionary Principle: Commonsense or the Devil’s Handiwork?
Topic 4: Ethics and the Brain: Ethical Implications of the New Lie Detection Technologies


Joseph Herkert
Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology
Arizona State University School of Applied Arts and Sciences
7001 E. Williams Field Road
Bell Hall, Room M3
Mesa, AZ 85212
+1 480-727-1548 (O)
joseph.herkert@asu.edu (e-mail)
Topic: Engineering Ethics


Michael C. Loui
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Coordinated Science Lab,
1308 W Main St, Urbana, IL 61801-2307
+1 217 333 2595 (O)
loui@uiuc.edu (e-mail)
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/loui
Ethics in engineering and computing
Topic 1: Incident at Morales: An Engineering Ethics Story
Topic 2: Taking the Byte out of Cookies: Privacy, Consent, and the Web
Research ethics
Topic 3: Ethical Issues in the Scientific Research: Authorship, Confidentiality, and Plagiarism
Effective college teaching
Topic 4: Organizing Student Groups and Teams
Scholarship of teaching and learning
Topic 5: Ethics and the Development of Professional Identities of Undergraduates
 

Kevin M. Passino, Professor
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering
416 Dreese Laboratories
The Ohio State University
2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
+1 614 292 5716 (O)
+1 614 292-7596 (Fax)
passino@ece.osu.edu (e-mail)
http://www.ece.osu.edu/~passino/
Topic 1: Engineering Volunteerism
Topic 2: Teaching Engineering Ethics to a Large Class.

  
Karl Perusich
Purdue University
1733 Mishawaka Ave.
South Bend, IN  46634
+1 574 291 5299 (O)
+1 574 520 4286 (Fax)
kperusic@galaxyinternet.net (e-mail)
Topic: Information in Warfare


Janet Rochester
+1 757 787 2097
j.rochester@ieee.org (e-mail)
Topic: Becoming a Professional


Stephen H. Unger
Computer Science Department
Mail Code 0401
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
+1 845 353 5375 (O)
unger@cs.columbia.edu
Topic: E-voting, A Non-Solution to a Non-Problem


 

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