Dr. Clinton Andrews, 2021 IEEE SSIT President of Rutgers University, New jersey

Engineers and scientists make technological changes that impact the real world. They also receive blowback when things do not go as planned, and things pretty much never go as planned. This presentation provides a roadmap for anticipating consequences, using historical analogies, systems thinking that includes socioeconomic factors, attention to social practices and how they change, reflective professional practices, and straightforward moral reasoning. The goal of the presentation is to get innovators talking about how to avoid undesirable outcomes in their own work.

Biography:

Dr. Clinton J. Andrews is a professor, center director, and associate dean for research at the E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. He was educated at Brown and MIT in engineering and planning and worked previously in the private sector and at Princeton University. He teaches public informatics and planning courses and performs research on how people use the built environment. He publishes both scholarly and popular articles and his books include Humble Analysis: The Practice of Joint Fact-finding, Regulating Regional Power Systems, and Industrial Ecology and Global Change. He recently completed service as co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and he remains a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a licensed Professional Engineer. Andrews is a Fellow of AAAS, a winner of IEEE’s 3rd Millenium Medal, and current president of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.

Email:

Address:Rutgers University, , New Burnswick, United States, 08854