Essays
- Professional Competence for Teaching Ethics in Science and Engineering
An essay for a special issue of the journal Teaching Ethics on the ethics of teaching STEM ethics, August 2024 - In the Footsteps of the Pioneers: My Journey in Engineering Ethics Education
My contribution to a collection of essays by engineering ethics trailblazers for the Online Ethics Center, May 2019. Also here - Moments of Inertia: Toward an Agenda for Sociological Research on Why Engineering Professors Resist Changes in Pedagogy and Curriculum
A white paper for the Social Dynamics of Campus Change workshop, National Academy of Engineering, April 26-27, 2006. Published in The Acceptance and Diffusion of Innovation: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Instructional and Curricular Change in Engineering, ed. R. Splater-Roth, N. Fortenberry, and B. Lovitts, pp. 71-77. American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 2007. - Response to the Best Practices Memo of the Computing Research Association
Appeared in Computing Research News, November 1999 - Life Among the Engineers: Basic Research in an Applied Discipline
A position statement for the ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, June 1996 - My Year at NSF
An essay on my year as a program director at the National Science Foundation; an abridged version appeared in ASEE Prism, June 1992