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John M. Staudenmaier, SJ, lives and works in Detroit, Michigan,
about two miles inside the city limits, on the campus of The University
of Detroit Mercy. He devotes his working life to teaching (the
University's required engineering ethics course, a survey of U.S.
technological style, upper division seminars--"Detroit, The City";
"Individualism and Community in the United States"; "Interpretations of
Capitalism"; "Advertising in America") and to the editing of
Technology and Culture, The International Quarterly of the Society for
the History of Technology. He speaks frequently in this country and
overseas, sometimes in the academy and sometimes in faith-based
contexts. He also consult with museums about exhibits, with television
producers about historical programs, with science and technology
reporters about articles in process. A short sampler of titles suggests
the kinds of questions that attract his attention. Technology's
Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric (MIT Press 1985, under
contract for 2nd edition); "The Politics and Ethics of Engineering";
"Relating to Technologies as Moral Adults"; "Denying the Holy Dark: The
Enlightenment and the European Mystical Tradition"; "Rationality vs
Contingency in the History of Technology."
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Daniel R. Lynch is
MacLean Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
(USA).
At Dartmouth Dr. Lynch pursues research at the intersection of advanced
computation and large-scale environmental simulation. He currently
directs research in continental shelf circulation, with major
international foci in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, South Atlantic
Bight, and Irish Shelf ecosystems. He served on the Executive Committee
of the US GLOBEC Northwest Atlantic Program, organized jointly under
NOAA and NSF. He has published extensively on finite element methods in
coastal oceanography and is co-editor of the recent AGU volume
Quantitative Skill Assessment for Coastal Ocean Models. The graduate
text Computational Partial Differential Equations for Environmental
Scientists and Engineers will appear in Fall 2004. Lynch is editor
of the volume Professions and the Common Good, under construction
for 2005 publication.
Lynch is a 1984 NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and the recipient
of the 1990 B.H. Ketchum Award for interdisciplinary estuarine studies
from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He served as Executive
Director of the Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine
from 1993 to 1996; is active in the American Geophysical Union, the
American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society of
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Philip
J. Chmielewski SJ
Professor and Holder of the Sir Thomas More Chair of Engineering
Ethics
Philip J. Chmielewski brings more than 15 years of university
instruction tothe position of the Sir Thomas More Chair of
Engineering Ethics. Prior tojoining the Seaver College of
Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los
Angeles, Chmielewski taught social ethics in the Department of
Theology at Loyola University Chicago. As a visiting senior
research fellow at the Jesuit Institute of Boston College, he
pursued research in modern German economic ethics. Additionally,
he has taught business ethics at the University of Detroit.
In recent years, Chmielewski has conducted research in several
cultures, he has used anthropological concepts to appreciate
Navajo cultural processes so as to have a better perspective
upon contemporary, global developments in technology. Earlier,
Chmielewski examined the social and political structures that
sustain liberties in Austria, researched the cultural
transformation of urban plans in Istanbul and Western Turkey,
studied steel technology in northwestern Indiana, and observed
employment and distribution in Belize and Morocco.
Chmielewski is currently involved on national committees that
pursue the development of engineering ethics. In addition, he is
involved in the
exploration of the shift in global engineering values and
concerns that
results from the rapid changes in China. Chmielewski has
published in the areas of workplace organization and technology
and is a member of key engineering societies
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Dr. Billy Koen
received B.A., Chemistry and B.S., Chemical Engineering degrees
from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Diplome
d'Ingenieur en Genie Atomique from L'Institut National
des Sciences et Techniques Nucleaires, Saclay, France in
1963 and M.S. and ScD. degrees in Nuclear Engineering in 1962
and 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has
been a professor at the University of Texas at Austin since
1968.
He was a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence
to nuclear reactor reliability. After 20 years of research in
the theory of engineering design, Dr. Koen produced a widely
acclaimed definition of the engineering method. His book
entitled Discussion of the Method has been acclaimed as one of
the best descriptions of engineering and the engineering
process.
Dr. Koen has written or contributed to six books, has
more than 100 technical publications and has presented 97 invited
lectures. In 1993 he was one of 175 engineering educators, who have had
a significant and lasting impact on engineering education or engineering
technology education, selected world-wide to receive the Centennial
Medallion from the American Society for Engineering Education.
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