{"id":30124,"date":"2016-10-04T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=30124"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:03:21","slug":"engineering-ethics-expert-brings-questions-communication-authority-civic-responsibility-flint-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/engineering-ethics-expert-brings-questions-communication-authority-civic-responsibility-flint-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering ethics expert brings questions about communication, authority and civic responsibility to Flint crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yanna Lambrinidou wants to teach today\u2019s engineers-in-training how to listen to their clients and extended communities. To that end, the professor in Virginia Tech\u2019s Department of Science and Technology<\/a> has co-developed and co-taught an \u201cEngineering Ethics and the Public<\/a>\u201d course. She is also principal investigator, with fellow professor Marc Edwards, of a National Science Foundation grant<\/a> titled \u201cBridging the Gap Between Engineers and Society: Learning to Listen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lambrinidou has a vested interest in bridging that gap, specifically between water quality engineers and residents who rely on public drinking water. In 2007, she became a lead-in-water activist: first for her hometown of Washington D.C., and then in the Flint, Michigan, crisis.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 28, she visited 草莓社区 to explain her activist work; the corruption which allowed the D.C. crisis to develop and fester; and her connection to Flint, which began in 2014. She\u2019s one of a team of Tech scientists<\/a> volunteering time, expertise, and resources \u201cto help resolve scientific uncertainties associated with drinking water issues being reported in the City of Flint,\u201d according to her team\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lambrinidou says she hopes her Suter Science Seminar<\/a>, titled \u201cFlint\u2019s Drinking Water Crisis and the Urgency to Re-imagine Engineers\u2019 Relationship with the Public,\u201d helped foster in the audience \u201ca healthy questioning mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n