GARY DOWNEY

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Gary Downey

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JOINED VPI& SU: 1981

CURRENT PROJECTS:

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's

Lehigh University

Master's

University of Chicago

Doctorate

University of Chicago


CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:

Engineering Studies
Activism, Intervention, and Knowledge for its Own Sake
Science and Technology in Everyday Life

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Influences of popular concepts of progress on what counts as engineers and engineering knowledge in different countries

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Boeing Company Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering
Member, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
2004 William E. Wine Award for career excellence in teaching
2003 XCaliber Award for high-quality instructional technology
1997 Diggs Teaching Scholar Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Gary Lee Downey. The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers. Routledge, 1998.

Gary Lee Downey & Joseph Dumit (Eds.). Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series, 1998.

Articles and Chapters

Lucena, Juan C. and Gary Lee Downey, eds 2006. “Building Bahrain, Egypt, and Turkey: Engineers and Engineering Education in the Middle East.” (Special issue of Technology and Society: Forthcoming March).

Downey, Gary Lee. 2005. “Are Engineers Losing Control of Technology?: From “Problem Solving” to “Problem Definition and Solution” in Engineering Education. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 83(A8):1-12(in press).

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan Lucena. 2005. “National Identities in Multinational Worlds: Engineers and ‘Engineering Cultures.’” International Journal for Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning 15(3/4):252-260. 

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2005. “Engineering Cultures.” Pp. 124-129 in Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Sal Restivo. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2004. “Knowledge and Professional Identity in Engineering.” History and Technology 20(December)4: 393-420.

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan C. Lucena. 2003. “When Students Resist: Ethnography of a Senior Design Experience in Engineering.” International Journal of Engineering Education 19(1):168-176.

Downey, Gary Lee. 2001. “Anthropology of Science and Technology.” International Encyclopedia of the Behavorial and Social Sciences, 3rd Edition, Elsevier Ltd. (15pp ms.)

Downey, Gary Lee. 1995. “Steering Technology through Computer-aided Design.” Pp. 83-110 in Constructive Technology Assessment, edited by Arie Rip, Thomas Misa, and John Schot. Academic Press. 

Downey, Gary Lee and Juan D. Rogers. 1995. “On the Politics of Theorizing in a Postmodern Academy.” American Anthropologist 97(2):269-281.

Downey, Gary Lee, Joseph Dumit, and Sarah Williams. 1995. “Cyborg Anthropology.” Cultural Anthropology 10(2):264-269.

Lucena, Juan and Gary Lee Downey. 1995. “Haciendo Cientificos e Ingenieros para Propositos Nacionales en USA: Desde la Guerra Fria hasta la Competitividad Economica” [Making Scientists and Engineers for Nacional Purposes in the United Status: From the Cold War to Economic Competitiveness]. Historica Critica 10(Enero-Junio): 29-36.


Department of Science and Technology in Society
Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies
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