Individualized program

The focus of research in CES is interdisciplinary in nature. Applications will be considered for doctoral studies under the Individualized Program (INDI) of the School of Graduate Studies. Exceptional cases will be considered also for the research based Master's program under INDI.

Interested students are encouraged to send their detailed CV along with a short research proposal directly to the CES professor whose interests are most closely related to the student's proposed research.  

CES faculty are involved in an INDI Research Current in Global Engineering:

Engineers and information scientists shape and are shaped by the social world in which they practice, and that world is becoming smaller and more interconnected. This observation opens a variety of research questions in the newly emerging field of global engineering. The major emphases of work in Global Engineering are in leadership studies and social entrepreneurship.  These two foci guide should guide student research, which may be focused on one or more of the following areas:

• Global competency: Communication skills; cross-cultural communication; management.
• Social impacts of technology: Equity; effects of technology on social, political, and cultural practices; ethics and practices of technological development aid.
• Globalization of technology: Function of multinational and international firms, international business and engineering codes, legislation, and regulation.

The INDI Global Engineering currently invites students to explore questions bearing on the relationship between society and technology, and to prepare students to engage in ethical engineering practices in the service of a global community. The faculty affiliated with this current conduct research from interdisciplinary perspectives centered on methodologies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.  These methodologies are designed to enhance and harness the technical abilities of engineers for the promotion of global public goods.

List of Participating Faculty:
Deborah Dysart-Gale
Govind Gopakumar
Jessica Mudry
Ketra Schmitt