Caroline Baillie is a Professor of Integrated and Engineering and Director of the Master’s in Engineering, Sustainability and Health (MESH). Previously, she served as 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.
Shehla Arif is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union. Her current research and teaching focuses on reclaiming the goals of liberal education by emphasizing social and ecological dimensions of engineering work. She aims at supporting diversity and promoting sustainability by foregrounding the societal impacts of Engineering practice and thus preparing compassionate engineers who care about the well-being of fellow human beings, other life forms, and the planet. She is the lead editor of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace. Her contributions range from creating novel Fluid Dynamics experiments to applying liberative pedagogies to teaching ThermalFluids Sciences. She obtained PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, IL, U.S.A followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship in Earth Sciences at McGill University, Canada. Her Masters in Mechanical Engineering is from Bucknell University, PA, U.S.A. She obtained B.E. from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
leon santen (they/any) is the secretary for ESJP and cares about co-creating conditions for aliveness in body & community. Leon sustains their life as a sustainable building designer at Alter Engineers in Oakland, California.
They developed an experimental communication website called marbles, where they share their graphic design, intellectual, and artistic explorations as a means of connecting with you (take a look and reach out if you are curious)!
Leon studied robotics at Olin College of Engineering and holds a Master in Engineering, Sustainability, and Health from the University of San Diego with Caroline (above) as one of their teachers and mentors. They grew up in Frankfurt, Germany.
Camilo Andrés Navarro Forero is an engineer and academic with a diverse educational background. Camilo completed his PhD in Engineering at Universidad de los Andes, specializing in Engineering for Peacebuilding. He is also a graduate of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) specialization MIT XPro in Systems Thinking and Project Management based on Systems Theory.
He is the author of, Untanglying Complexity, System Thinking and Complexity Management to Support Community Development and Reimagined Engineering, books both published by Springer.
Camilo has served as the Dean of Engineering at the Fundación Universitaria Salesiana, for the past 5 yesrs overseeing programs in Agroindustrial Engineering, Energy Engineering, Informatics Engineering, and Data Management Technology. Currently, he is a full-time professor in the Industrial Engineering program at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito in Bogotá DC Colombia
Corin (Corey) Bowen (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education, housed in the Department of Civil Engineering, at California State University – Los Angeles, a locally-serving, majority-minority, commuter university in inner-city Los Angeles. Her engineering education research focuses on structural oppression in engineering systems, organizing for equitable change, and developing an agenda of Engineering for the Common Good, applying anti-racist, anti-militarist, and anti-capitalist frameworks. She teaches structural mechanics and sociotechnical topics in engineering education and practice, facilitates critical faculty development programming, and advocates for more equitable student support on campus. She is an organizer and Steward in her labor union, the California Faculty Association, and an Editor for the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace.
Darko Matovic is a semi-retired Associate professor at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Smith Engineering @ Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In his career he worked in many specialties related to energy and fluids: combustion, laser anemometry, computational fluid dynamics, renewable energy, general design, biochar, biomass, plastics recycling and reuse and strawbale houses. As an educator and participant he was involved in waste for life projects in Lesotho, Rhode Island School of Design and Queen’s. He is devoted to a life long effort to listen first, discuss next and participate in finding solutions that are initiated by he community members, rather than be the solution in search of a problem. His personal experience attests that it is a long and windy path, a life long personal challenge. On a more cheerful side, sharing his expperience, he often witnessed similar paradigm shift in generations of students that he enjoyed educating. Recently, he is involved in elementary school education (electronics) in Tanzania. He joined ESJP several years after its establishment by Caroline Baillie @ Queen’s and remained active member ever since.
