FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...

Shivani Dharanipragada ‘25, is a computer science and economics major and was a 2022-23 environmental ethics fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. As Earth’s climate ...

Engineering has evolved beyond the equations, laboratory inventions, and drawings. Engineers now have a significant impact on public safety, data privacy, infrastructure reliability, environmental ...

If you are inspired by the promise of science and technology, and aware of the inherent risks, there is a place for you here. We focus on the contemporary philosophical issues of engineering and ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Ashley Shew is associate professor of science, technology, ...

April 24, 2023: GAITHERSBURG, Maryland – The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the world’s leading professional society for fire protection and fire safety engineering, announces a new ...

As engineers, our creations have an immeasurable effect on the world, often one that continues to evolve after us in unimaginable ways. From bridges that tragically collapse to robots that are used as ...

How digital tools, internships, and sustainable practices are preparing civil engineering students for future industry demands.

The story of Occidental Engineering, which is fictional but hardly implausible, illustrates several important points about ethics. First of all, ethics is normative. That is, it involves making ...

Harvard College is moving toward the launch of a new interdisciplinary concentration called “Energy, Climate, and Environment” in the 2026-27 academic year, bringing students together across the ...