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 | Juan Lucena Liberal Arts and International Studies Tel: 303-273-3564 |
Juan Lucena is Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division (LAIS) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Juan obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech and a MS in STS and BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
As a cultural history of U.S. policymaking for education and human resources in S&E, his book Defending the Nation: U.S. Policymaking to Create Scientists and Engineers from Sputnik to the ‘War Against Terrorism’ (University Press of America, 2005) has three goals. First, it establishes a theoretical connection between culture and policymaking though a historical case study. Second, it provides a comprehensive history of the education and development of scientists and engineers in the U.S. in the last five decades. Finally, it offers insights on how human resource policy for S&E might more successfully satisfy changing needs of society while preserving the strengths of the S&E higher educational system. He continues researching and actively participating in S&E education policy fora.
During the summer of 1999, Dr. Lucena had the opportunity to bring his teaching and mentoring to fifteen of the best engineering students in the U.S. as they participated in the Washington Internship for Students of Engineering (WISE) program in Washington, D.C, a policy education program sponsored by the major engineering societies. He taught these students the processes, actors, and institutions that shape technology policy and politics, advised them in the discovery of alternative career paths in policymaking, and mentored them in the writing and publishing of high-quality papers in significant areas of technology policy, including space commercialization and the funding of airport infrastructure. Some of his WISE students gave up highly paid job offers in engineering to enter exciting careers in law and policymaking.
For the last decade, he has researched how images of globalization shape engineering education, hiring practices, and engineering practices and designs under a NSF CAREER Award titled Global Engineers: An Ethnography of Globalization in the Education, Hiring Practices and Designs of Engineers in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. He is also co-investigator in the following projects: Building the Global Engineer, aimed at developing, evaluating, and disseminating curricula on the cultural dimensions of engineering education and practice in different national contexts; Engineers and the Metrics of Progress, a comparative ethnographic and historical research and analysis that explores relationships between engineers and national identity; and Enhancing Engineering Education through Humanitarian Ethics, focused on researching the intersection between ‘humanitarianism’ and ‘engineering ethics’ and developing graduate curricula in Humanitarian Engineering. Dr. Lucena serves as a panel reviewer for the U.S. National Science Foundation and for many international journals on engineering education and policy. He has directed the Science, Technology, and Globalization Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers at CSM. For 2005 and 2006, he received the Boeing Senior Fellowship in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering.
Please visit Juan's homepage at Colorado School of Mines.