Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. For more information on her scholarship and research, see the "About" page or download her CV. For information on her teaching, please visit her official university Web page.
December 16th, 2009

Whither Weatherizing? Or, Whose High Tech?

Coming Soon to a Community Bulletin Board Near You; with thanks to Darin Hayton.

As Obama inches toward implementing his job creation schemes, we hear a lot about the jobs that will be created through federally supported “green” initiatives,  including those in retro-fitting and weatherizing buildings. Folks who can afford it can already Google their [...]

December 16th, 2009

Engineering Education in Perspective

Several excellent essays describing engineers as educators with social values and ideological commitments–left, right, and center–appear in the latest Technology and Culture. This journal, for those who don’t know it, may sound  narrowly academic but it frequently offers articles that are low on jargon and high on material of interest to practitioners and policy makers. This special issue on engineering [...]