The Roles, Ethics, and Social Responsibility of Engineering

Engineers do not just build tools, they create systems of power through innovation and technological advancement. Developing these systems responsibly requires examining the consequences of engineering innovation and predicting how it will interact with society. Join us as Dr. Renee Marlin-Bennett discusses ethics, power, and governance in engineering through a lecture followed by a guided discussion and Q&A!
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Professor Renée Marlin-Bennett researches global problems involving information and how it flows, borders, bodies, and power. Much of her previous work has explored the evolution of rules that order global practices as well as those that provide the basis for disorder. Her current research on global problems focuses on instances of power and how they can congeal into governance or disruption of governance. Much of her work now looks to the Internet and global sites within cyberspace as opportunities for complicating our understanding of the practices of global politics in the Information Age. Marlin-Bennett is the author of Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy (Lynne Rienner Publishers, May 2004) and Food Fights: International Regimes and the Politics of Agricultural Trade Disputes (Gordon & Breach, 1993; reissued by Routledge Revivals), and the editor of Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World (Taylor and Francis, 2011).

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