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Please join us for an informational lecture by Louis L. Bucciarelli entitled:
Ethics and Engineering Education
Louis L. Bucciarelli is a Professor of Engineering and Technology Studies, now emeritus, at MIT. Early on his research concerned various problems in engineering mechanics - a subject he has taught at MIT in various varieties over the past 40 years. He is co-author, with Professor Nancy Dworsky, of Sophie Germain: a Study in the History of the Theory of Elasticity (Reidel, 1980). During the Carter administration, he worked with a group at Lincoln Laboratory on the design and development of photovoltaic energy systems.
Subsequently, he developed an analytical method for estimating loss-of-load probabilities of stand-alone pv systems. More recently he has studied the engineering design process adopting the perspective and methods of an ethnographer. He is the author of Designing Engineers (MIT Press, 1994) and Engineering Philosophy (Delft University Press, 2003).
ABET recommends the study of ethics, so that students attain
