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W. Bernard Carlson, chair of the Department of Engineering and Society, spoke to The Great Courses about the role of satellites in our communications systems today.

Science, technology and society professor Rosalyn Berne, who is serving as director of the NAE’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, argues that ethical engineering practices helped gain the public’s trust, and to hold it, resilience engineering must continue to be guided by ethics.

A new study led by prinicipal scientist Jason Forman at the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics shows that women wearing seat belts are significantly more likely to suffer injury than their male counterparts.

New research at the Center for Applied Biomechanics has found that while cars are getting safer overall, the odds of a female sustaining a serious to fatal injury in a collision are 73 percent higher than they are for a male.

Engineering Systems and Environment’s Tom Polmateer talked with Virginia Business about the department’s membership in the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems.

Despite howling winds and a last-minute steering problem, the Hoos Flying Club came out of a competition in Texas ranked No. 3 in the world and tops in the U.S.

Bryan Berger, an associate professor of chemical engineering, is collaborating with UVA and UVA-Wise researchers to spur economic development in Southwest Virginia through an Appalachian Prosperity Project fellowship.