Singh Center for Nanotechnology - Professional Development for Graduate Students and Postdocs
Thursday, February 25, 2021
**1-2 pm, ET Zoom
Engineering at Penn: A Local History of Materials Science & Contemporary Approaches to STEM Ethics
Brit Shields, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Bioengineering Department, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Brit Shields has training as a sociologist and historian of science and currently teaches the undergraduate engineering ethics curriculum at Penn. Her scholarship focuses on the reciprocal relationship between technology and society. This talk will include an overview of the local history of material science at Penn as well as contemporary approaches to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) ethics education today.
(*corrected from 11 on original, 2/15/21)