Events and Announcements

“If you go to communities of color across this country and ask them, ‘What’s the source of the environmental problems?’ they can point you to every one: the highway, the chemical plants, the...

"...I like the challenge of stepping into uncomfortable places and asking questions that most people won’t.  One example is hair. How can mechanical engineering impact hair care? When you have a...

"Technology bosses don’t always foresee how people will respond to what they create. It is the people in the technology trenches who live the benefits of tech services and their pitfalls, maybe...

"...When you start looking at AI systems on that bigger scale, and on that longer time horizon, you shift away from these very narrow accounts of “AI fairness” and “ethics” to saying: these are...

"...While in the startup and development phases, Casey encourages tech leaders and designers to put themselves into the minds of “awful people.” Consider how they might use this technology if it...

"The HE program at Mines has developed a framework for what it means to be a socially-responsible engineer and to engage with the community. More recently, work by Lucena and Smith has begun to...

"...The pushback didn’t surprise Ms. Knodel, who had proposed similar changes in 2018 without gaining traction. The engineering community is “quite rigid and averse to these sorts of changes,” she...

" The pandemic has made disciplinary boundaries blurry again. This is the moment for champions of the medical humanities to strike. To make sense of disproportionate Covid death rates in Black and...

"...Perhaps the film's greatest feat is linking all of these stories to highlight a systemic problem: it's not just that the algorithms "don't work," it's that they were built by the same...

"Achieving fairness in medical devices is a key piece of the puzzle, but a piece nonetheless. Even if one manages to engineer a fair medical device, it could be used by a clinical provider who has...