Engineering towards a More Just and Sustainable World 
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Mini-Conference: 
March 6-7, 2010, 
Cincinnati, Ohio

Engineers and engineering shape our social, physical, and built environments in profound ways. As that influence grows, deliberation and debate about underlying choices and directions becomes ever more important. To aid these critical reflections, the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) is hosting this mini-conference in conjunction with its 2010 annual meeting at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel. Cosponsored by the Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society of the National Academy of Engineering, the meeting will bring together engineers and scholars in ethics and in science and technology studies to explore the connections between engineering and justice.

At 4:00pm on March 6, Indira Nair, Vice Provost of Education and Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, will give the keynote address, “Technology and Global Justice.” The talk will focus on how to educate the engineers of tomorrow to think about global justice in the context of their profession and work. Responding to her remarks are Greg Allgood, Director, Children’s Safe Drinking Water, and Senior Fellow in Sustainability at Proctor and Gamble, Inc.; and David Crocker, Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland-College Park. Two panel sessions that follow on Saturday evening and Sunday morning will examine both difficulties and opportunities for connecting engineering and social and environmental justice, from the perspectives of engineers and scholars in the social sciences and humanities. The final panel of engineers will discuss resources available to engineers and organizations that wish to encourage engineering for justice. The conference will conclude Sunday at 12:30pm.

Sponsored by APPE and the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society, the kickoff keynote lecture will be free to all attendees of the APPE Annual Meeting, but registration is required to attend subsequent sessions. Registration costs $70, or $40 for those already registered for the APPE meeting. Registration materials are available on the APPE website.

You can download the preliminary agenda here.

For more information contact:

Rachelle Hollander
Director, CEES
National Academy of Engineering
Washington, DC 20001
rhollander@nae.edu