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Introduction Many members of Generation Z who are interested in assisting in the fight against climate change have found themselves at somewhat of a crossroads. The issue is that no matter where we end up, there are a million different interconnected problems, all of which contribute substantially to habitat destruction,...

In almost every borough, suburb, and city block in America, quality of life is decreasing while cost of living is increasing. A stunning 69 percent of people can’t afford new median priced housing, driving over a third of American households to rent (United States Census Bureau, 2020). But the rental...

People are freaking out about ChatGPT’s ability to generate complex and unique texts that can be hard to distinguish from human writing (Dale, 2020). With ChatGPT gaining 100 million users in two months (The Economic Times, 2023) and becoming the fastest growing consumer application in history, many people feel like...

As the builders of tomorrow, it is crucial that we learn to see our systems from different perspectives and understand the inherent biases of our worldview.

In today’s society, the need to graduate engineers who are conscious of their ethical and professional responsibilities is more important than ever.

Clarence "Clancy" Herbst, Jr. (ChemEngr'50), passed away on June 21. He was 95. He and his wife, Linda Vitti Herbst, made the Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers, now called the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society, possible.

Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, assistant professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, is a co-editor of American Energy Cinema, a new collection of essays focusing on how energy is portrayed by Hollywood. The goal of the collection is to create an enjoyable and accessible space for historians and scholars to examine how gas, oil, coal, nuclear power and the ongoing tensions around electrification are captured by popular culture.

Vidmar, Head of IP Litigation at Microsoft and CU Alumnus delivered the inaugural Moulakis Lecture on Responsible Engineering, "Technology is a very human activity".

Clarifai, an AI startup translating images and video into structured data, was committed to philanthropic practices such as donating software to socially beneficial causes. This was the Clarifai that Liz O’Sullivan was familiar with when she joined the team in 2017. 12 Several months later, O’Sullivan found herself in a...

When I was growing up, I was inexplicably fascinated with my parent’s perspective on the world during their own childhood. In 2012, I was in fifth grade, and had a good part of my summer ruined because I read a National Geographic article about the impact climate change would have...