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Sewers could help clean the atmosphere
January 15, 2019
Researchers have concluded that sewer plants serving municipalities worldwide offer a major option for capturing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Andlinger Center program yields summer exploration, new pathways
January 11, 2019
Undergraduates sponsored by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in its eight-week summer internship program worked in labs throughout the University and, for the first time, at two national environmental organizations.
Ethics course explores risk and responsibility in engineering
January 08, 2019
Jay Benziger teaches the undergraduate course “Ethics and Technology: Engineering in the Real World.” Unlike the certainty of bench science, he noted that questions of ethics often lack precise answers.
Ethics in Engineering
January 08, 2019
This magazine offers a sampling of ways in which ethics is an important part of research and teaching in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Effort pushes computer scientists to consider uses of technology
January 08, 2019
Computer courses usually concentrate on technology, but Princeton researchers are revamping parts of the computer science curriculum to teach students how the technologies they develop will affect society.
Princeton collaboration brings new insights to the ethics of artificial intelligence
January 08, 2019
“Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics” is an interdisciplinary research project that brings engineers and policymakers into conversation with ethicists, philosophers, and other scholars.
Course equips graduate students to 'confront big problems'
January 08, 2019
“Responsible Conduct in Research” is a graduate ethics course that examines issues of personal ethics, student-adviser relationships, and academic publishing, as well as broader topics in engineering ethics.
Researchers track hurricane’s effects on river pollution and beneficial bacteria
January 07, 2019
Peter Jaffe’s research group in civil and environmental engineering are investigating nutrient cycling and pollution along North Carolina's Neuse River in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
From mechanics and materials to robots and rockets, a department with outsized ‘intellectual breadth and impact’
January 04, 2019
Howard Stone, the Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and chair of the department, highlights innovative faculty and students, and research that bridges many fields of science and engineering.
Norman and Margareta Augustine endow three Professorships in Princeton’s School of Engineering
January 02, 2019
Alumnus Norman R. Augustine and his wife, Margareta “Meg” Engman Augustine, have made a gift to Princeton University to endow three professorships in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.