Engineering empathy: Faculty works to build empathy into engineering program
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
When Mark Hain decided to leave his job as an emergency medical technician to pursue a degree in environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, he assumed he would immediately get his hands dirty designing and building projects. Instead, he found himself in a design course analyzing and discussing in detail how his work as an engineer might impact others—and questioning whether certain projects should be built at all.