Engineering Education and Practice: Embracing a Catholic Vision

List of Contributors

List of Contributors JohN Borg is an associate professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University. He came to Marquette in 2002, where his primary area of research involves shock physics phenomenology . Dr. Borg has been involved in international service learning at Marquette since 2004. formerly, Dr. Borg was a lead scientist for the Naval Surface warfare Center in Dahlgren, virginia, from 1997 to 2002. Dr. Borg was an NSf International Postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University from 1996 to 1997. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Memphis in 1990, his M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1992, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1996. camille m. george is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. george has a broad background in applied industrial research with a particular field of expertise in the coupling of electromagnetic fields with ionized gases. Applications range from welding and surface coatings to laser cutting. She teaches an innovative class on fuel cells and is interested in energy systems and energy policy. She is also interested in global sustainability and engineering for the developing world. Dr. george has taken students to the Caribbean and is currently working with a group of educators interested in international discovery projects in the nation of Mali. KeViN P. halliNaN is professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. He formerly served as chair for nearly twelve years. He received a B.S. in 1982 213 214 Contributors from the University of Akron, an M.S. in 1984 from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in 1988 from the Johns Hopkins University, all in mechanical engineering. His teaching focus is in the areas of sustainability and energy. His research addressed these same topics, but with an emphasis on community-based energy reduction. He has authored and coauthored over eighty publications and graduated eleven Ph.D. students . He also founded a flourishing graduate program in Renewable and Clean Energy. fr. JameS l. heft, S.m., received his doctorate in historical theology from the University of Toronto. for nearly thirty years he taught at the University of Dayton where he served as chair of the Religious Studies Department, Provost, and University Professor and Chancellor. In 2006, he became the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion and President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California. He has written or edited twelve books and published over 170 articles and book chapters. His most recent publications are Catholic High Schools: Facing the New Realities (Oxford , 2011), and an edited work, Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility Among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Oxford, 2011). Recipient of four honorary degrees, he received the 2011 Theodore M. Hesburgh Award from the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. Paul c. heiDeBrecht is the director of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) advocacy office in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Heidebrecht ’s main research interests include political theology and applying theological ethics to problems posed by technology. He earned a B.A.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the University of waterloo in Ontario, an M.A.T.S. in theological ethics from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Marquette University. Prior to pursuing graduate studies he spent six years working as an engineer in the automotive industry. He has also served overseas with MCC as an appropriate technology engineer in Bangladesh and as a theology lecturer in Nigeria. BraD J. KalleNBerg holds a Ph.D. in theology (philosophical theology and ethics) from fuller Theological Seminary and is associate Contributors 215 professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton. He has taught hundreds of engineering students a course entitled Christian Ethics and Engineering. In 2005 he won the prestigious Humanities fellowship Award to develop a course that teaches engineering design from the vantage of Christian theology and ethics. He is author of a number of scholarly articles and book chapters. He is also the author of God and Gadgets (Cascade Books, 2011), Ethics as Grammar: Changing the Postmodern Subject (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) and is currently finishing Living by Design: A Design Paradigm for Theological Ethics and Engineering (Cascade Books, forthcoming). DaViD J. o’BrieN is...