We engage UConn faculty who have in-depth knowledge of human factors intrinsic to engineering projects together in collaborative research and teaching with faculty in other disciplines such as sociology, political science, and geography. Together, we create projects and products to improve livelihoods and reduce environmental impact globally. We engage companies conducting engineering operations and work with impacted communities, supporting business development and innovation worldwide. Key faculty include:

Affiliated Faculty

Hertel, S., Chacon-Hurtado, D., Kazerounian, K., Mellor, J., Barry, J., & Ravindran, T. (forthcoming 2023). "Engineering for Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a Human Rights-Based Approach to Engineering." Journal of Science, Technology and Human Values.

Hertel, S., Chacon-Hurtado, D., & Sirota, S. (2023). New Frontiers in BHR Education: Engineering for Human Rights. In A.P. Ewing (Ed.), Teaching Business and Human Rights. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/teaching-business-and-human-rights-9781802201123.html

Chacón-Hurtado, Davis, Sirota, Sandra & Hertel, Shareen (2022). “Teaching Engineering for Human Rights: Lessons Learned from a case study-based undergraduate class.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Burkey, Daniel D., & Michael F. Young. (2017). Work-in-Progress: A Cards Against Humanity’-style Card Game for In-creasing Engineering Students’ Awareness of Ethical Issues in the Profession. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.  American Society for Engineering Education.   Link.

Mauldin, Laura. (2011). Cochlear implants & the mediated classroom-clinic: communication technologies and co-operations across multiple industries. Disability Studies Quarterly. Volume 31 (4)

Mauldin, Laura. (2012). Parents of deaf children with cochlear implants: a study of technology and community. Sociology of Health & Illness.34(5):1-15.

Mauldin, Laura. (2014). Precarious plasticity: Neuropolitics, cochlear implants, and the redefinition of deafness. Science, Technology and Human Values.39(1):130-53.

Mauldin, Laura. (2016). Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Mauldin, Laura. (2019). “Don’t look at it as a miracle cure: Contested notions of success and failure in family narratives of pediatric cochlear implantation. Social Science and Medicine.Vol 228:117-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.021

Shareen H., Chacon-Hurtado D., Sirota S. “New Frontiers in BHR Education: Engineering for Human Rights,” (forthcoming) in Teaching Business and Human Rights, Anthony P. Ewing, ed. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (under contract).

Shareen Hertel & Allison MacKay, (2016). Engineering and Human Rights: Teaching Across the Divide,” Business and Human Rights Journal 1, 1 (January 2016): 159-164.

Shareen Hertel & Allison MacKay. (2016). Engineering and Human Rights: Teaching Across the Divide,” Business and Human Rights Journal 1.