Future engineers need to understand their work’s human impact – here’s how my classes prepare students to tackle problems like climate change
Engineers spend much of their time absorbed in the technical aspects of problems, whether they’re designing the next generation of smartphones or building a subway. As recent news stories attest, this technocentric approach has some critical limitations, and the result can end up harming rather than helping society. For example, artificial intelligence algorithms designed by software engineers […]… Learn more.