Learning to Listen: An Ethnographic Approach to Engineering Ethics Education
Author(s) -
Yanna Lambrinidou,
Marc Edwards
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/1-2--19874
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , engineering ethics , public relations , bridge (graph theory) , ethnography , engineering education , sociology , political science , engineering , law , medicine , paleontology , anthropology , biology
Dr. Yanna Lambrinidou is a medical ethnographer and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Virginia Tech. For the past 6 years, she has conducted research on the historic 2001-2004 Washington, DC lead-in-drinking-water contamination. This work exposed wrongdoing and unethical behavior on the part of local and federal government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived and co-taught the new graduate level engineering ethics class ”Engineering Ethics and the Public.” Her previous research focused on hospice and pediatric cancer care.
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