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Caroline Baillie is Chair of Engineering Education at the University of Western Australia and her main research interests are Engineering and Social Justice within Engineering Education as well as through her practical development work in the network organisation she runs with Eric Feinblatt, ‘Waste for Life’, which creates poverty reducing solutions to environmental problems. Caroline launched the Engineering, social justice and peace network in 2004 with the first conference held at Queen’s University in Canada. |
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Donna Riley is a founding faculty member and Associate Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first engineering program at a U.S. women’s college. She is committed to liberative (critical and feminist) pedagogies in engineering education as a vehicle for transformative learning and practice. She is interested in creative use of direct action methods in social justice work both within and outside of engineering. Her most recent book is Engineering and Social Justice, and she is currently working on a textbook companion for thermodynamics that addresses social justice concerns around energy in the twenty-first century. |
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George D. Catalano is a professor of bioengineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He believes quite passionately that engineering is in desperate need of discovering its heart. With that connection to our hearts, the problems of justice for all of Creation can be faced. |
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Dean Nieusma studies interdisciplinary design collaboration and the expertise that enables it, focusing especially on strategies that align engineering production with democratic process. He has published on topics ranging from design theory to renewable energy systems design to engineering and design education. He received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he now teaches in the acclaimed interdisciplinary Programs in Design and Innovation. |
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Usman Mushtaq is a MSc candidate in Civil Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is currently working on his thesis to theorize a socially just engineering design process. He is also one of the Editors for the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering. Academically, he is interested in applying critical and anarchist social theory to engineering practice. He serves as the Webmaster of ESJP and is responsible for the ESJP Zine as well. |
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Jens Kabo is a recent doctoral graduate from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Queens University, Canada conducting research in the area of engineering education. His research interest is engineering and social justice with a focus on student learning in courses that highlights the social context surrounding engineering and introduces alternative views of the profession. Jens has studied this kind of student learning at Queen’s and at three universities (Smith College, R.P.I. and SUNY Binghamton) in the United States. Jens acts as the secretary for the ESJP network. |
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Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda is co-founder of Engineering Without Borders Colombia (http://isfcolombia.uniandes.edu.co). He currently has a post-doc fellowship at the Technical University of Denmark working in research related to Sustainable Transitions, Engineering Education and Engineering and Development. He is committed to support the activities of different organisations working with communities and especially the production of new knowledge in engineering for development. |
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Juan Lucena is Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division (LAIS) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Juan obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech and a MS in STS and BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His books include Defending the Nation: U.S. Policymaking to Create Scientists and Engineers from Sputnik to the ‘War Against Terrorism’ (University Press of America, 2005) and Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan &Claypool, 2010, co-authored with Jon Leydens and Jen Schneider). |
If you are interested in getting involved with ESJP, please contact Jens Kabo at secretary [at] esjp.org.







